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Read more »[New Year’s Resolutions] List of languages worth learning & One New Language a Year: Smalltalk
"The Pragmatic Programmers recommend learning a new programming language every year. I thought for a long time that this was a good idea, but didn't really act on it. Instead I'd dabble in a dozen languages a year. While this has built my intuition as to what various languages are like it has not made me a competent programmer in a new language.
Read more »A Single Command to Get Started on Functional Programming
"Functional Programming is old. Ancient. Like right after FORTRAN. But it’s the future. Trust me, I’m named after the dude who knew about Jesus 700 years early. Seriously, it’s not going to take 700 years for FP to go mainstream. Some would argue that it already is. Python, Ruby, and others have adopted a number of FP features.
Read more »OCaml Batteries alpha 2: Debian packages
"Out of popular request (wow, people on #ocaml@freenode are very excited about the Batteries thingy, good!), I've prepared Debian packages for OCaml Batteries Included, version alpha 2 ..."
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OCaml — now with on-line help
"I’m happy to tell you that the on-line help system for the OCaml toplevel has just been committed to our new git repository. So what does this mean? ..."
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preview of OCaml batteries included Debian packages
"OCaml batteries included is a wonderful community-driven initiative to standardize the OCaml development platform..."
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Emacs and Ocaml
"Now that I am becoming a "real" programmer, I have made the decision to learn how to use the behemoth of a text editor, Emacs. A feature-rich and highly customizable editor, Emacs is distributed by the GNU project and has historically been one of the most popular text editors in programming history, along with vi [...] Learning Emacs is like learning how to drive stick.
Read more »ocaml 3.10.2 is in testing
"As per title: OCaml 3.10.2 (... and friends of course) today has entered testing, as such it will be released with Debian Lenny. Yay..."
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The extinction of standardization dinosaurs on the software planet
"According to this, the ISO are now calling a "standard" the Microsoft Office format (which is cynically called "Office Open XML"). [...] What is interesting is that TeX, LaTeX, OGG/Vorbis, OGG/Theora, Perl, Python, PHP, Ruby, OCaml, are not standardized by any organization.
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