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An Introduction to Functional Languages: Part Two

kensipe — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:48:54 +0000

Previously we gave an introduction to functional languages. Now we take a look at some functional programming examples with F#. James Sugrue

An Introduction to Functional Languages

kensipe — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:54:52 +0000

There has been explosion of software development languages in recent years. Chief among these languages or programming approaches is functional programming. This article will go through the details of functional programming; concepts, terms, approaches, and languages. The target audiences for this article are developers that already understand programming but are totally new to functional...

The New Era of Programming Languages

kirkk — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:27:33 +0000

Burton Group has just published the overview I authored titled The New Era of Programming Languages. This is a timely document. The Tiobe Programming Index shows an increasing mix of different language types that are popular today.References Reference: The New Era of Programming LanguagesThe New Era of Programming Languages ...

The Ioke reflector

olabini — Fri, 08 May 2009 14:07:10 +0000

Ioke is a very object oriented language. The amount of concepts in it is also quite small. I’ve tried to factor the implementation into smaller pieces, which are then composed into the full object hierarchy. One of the side effects of this is that it is possible to make objects that can’t be handled generically, since they don’t have all those things you expect objects to have. There is no...

Oracle Buys Sun - Coverage from around the Web

jsugrue — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:05:06 +0000

In what could be the most important decision of the year, after weeks of speculation of IBM buying out Sun, which failed to produce a result, today Oracle have swept in and bought Sun. DZone has assembled a collection of news coverage and 'Tweets' from around the Web (this list will be updated throughout the week -- feel free to post additional links in response to this thread):

Oracle's Effect on Java

jsugrue — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:45:22 +0000

With Oracle just after buying Sun, maybe it's time to consider what this means for the Java community. There's no doubt that enterprise Java is something that Oracle have huge interest in, and will probably help nudge this along. Two things that I would really like to see are continued, and improved, investment into Java on the client side, as well as getting things back on track for Java 7.

Objects as Actors?

debasishg — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:55:56 +0000

Tony Arcieri, creator of Reia, recently brought up an interesting topic on unifying actors and objects. Talking about Scala and his disliking towards Scala's implementation of actors as an additional entity on top of objects, he says, it would have been a more useful abstraction to model all objects as actors. Doing it that way would eschew many of the overlapping functions that both of the...

Screencast: JBoss Rails and JBoss in the Cloud

nbharti78 — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:15:11 +0000

In this presentation, recorded at the JBoss Virtual Experience 2009, Bob McWhirther explores running a Rails application on JBoss AS 5 and delves into the working of the Microcontainer, which makes it all possible. McWhirther shows how the JBoss appliance makes deploying JBoss applications into virtualized environments a snap. Taking it a step further, he demonstrates the ease of deploying...

Why functional programming doesn't catch on

Confusion09 — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:15:21 +0000

Authorities in the field of software engineering have long lamented the fact that functional programming (FP) doesn't seem to catch on. Their sympathizers often blame that on shortcomings in the audience or their pointy-haired bosses, but that is the easy way out: to assume that someone that disagrees with you simply lacks the ability to understand you is a way of shielding yourself from the...

The Rise and Fall of Dynamic Languages

jaredr — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:34:43 +0000

In this interview, Ruby programmer and consultant Rick DeNatale provides his perspective on the fall and rise of dynamic languages, including Smalltalk and Ruby. Rick's work through the years has given him a unique and low-level perspective of what works and why.Editor's Note - This interview was recorded prior to the RubyRX Conference that recently took place in Raleigh, N.C. ...

Refcardz Topics: What Should We Cover? (Vote Now)

WeiLing — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 11:40:45 +0000

DZone needs your help! We have a lot of Refcard topics on our plate and want to know how to prioritize the topic choices. What topics would you like to see? Vote your favorites from the list below.If you're interested in writing a Refcard, please click here. Java Performance Tuning Java Concurrency ...

Ruby and Your Brain

nbharti78 — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:32:05 +0000

In this video, presented at the December 2008 Kyushu Ruby Kaigi in Fukuoka, Japan, Andy Hunt talks about his new book, Pragmatic Thinking and Learning, the nature of expertise, and issues in cognition and neuroscience that are important to software developers. He takes a quick look at how the brain works, and how the Ruby programming language, for instance, fits in with a healthy and pragmatic...

Q&A - Nathaniel Talbott on Ruby and the Well-Rounded Programmer

nbharti78 — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:04:22 +0000

In this exclusive interview, Agile Coach Jared Richardson talks to Ruby veteran Nathaniel Talbott about his current projects, the Ruby community, and more. Talbot created Test::Unit, a framework for unit testing in Ruby and runs a training and consulting company called Terralien. List in Express Request?: ...

Navigation Inside RubyMine

topka — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:06:09 +0000

What do you imagine first when you think of a mine? Probably a hole going under ground where everything is pitch-dark and it's difficult to find your way around... But we, ruby "miners", cannot afford to wander the depths of our projects' code with a shimmering torch. Time is worth more than rubies! Subtitle: Brief overview of...

Odd Theses - A Look Inside JBoss Rails & Cloud with Bob McWhirter

nbharti78 — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:55:19 +0000

Developers today not only have a plethora of languages to choose from, but also a vast array of virtual computing platforms on which to deploy these increasingly multilingual applications. Article Type: Opinion/Editorial