Programming Languages

Pair Programming It results outstanding to me that the idea of having a pair or a group of programmers working on the same computer is relatively new to the programming world, the phrase of "two heads are better than one" has been existing from a long time ago prior to computation and it is has been proven to work (also it is quite logical), so why pair programming hasn't shine as it's supposed to be? The only thing that disturbs pair programming is the human factor, humans change their mind but at the same time don't, if they have worked all their lives alone and the results have been good the change to a pair programming will be difficult, they'll think that they are superior than their comrade, the suggestions of the last one will be ignored mostly, no help will be asked, making the pair programming more of a hassle than a good programming method. Other thing that involves the human factor is the interaction with others, maybe we can get along with so...

Rich Hickey on Clojure Clojure and his ability to easily communicate with Java makes it the perfect contender for best language, being able to simply call Java code con Clojure code and looking that they work without trouble at start is something that is rarely seen but that when it does appear, is like when God decides to touch you with all his greatness. Programmers and enterprises have noticed this, that's why Clojure is one of the most well-paid languages on USA. Inheriting from LISP the investigation-oriented theme makes a language that cannot be managed by anyone but when mastered, it really shows its true potential, sadly this isn't enough for making LISP, Clojure or the functional programming in general a popular thing, although Clojure with its JVM implementation and macros seeks to fight the problems that stopped LISP from getting mainstream. Thanks to functions that Clojure has, it makes it way easier and direct to solve problems and to actually combine or to...

Dick Gabriel on Lisp Lisp, as the language that introduced a new kind of programming, opened a new window of opportunities, it had another vision, another way for doing everything that other languages do and with this different vision there were things that were considered difficult or weren't even thought of came to be a close reality. The function-based system that Lisp uses is capable to keep building itself based on the needs of the programmer, this is particularly useful, basically you could have your own language for each task that you have, everything based on Lisp. Considering that Lisp is free from some restrains of other languages like types, is relatively easier to build ones own language or if we want to avoid the hustle, to build macros that simply return what they have to based on what they receive and the environment they are running. Basically, every functional programming language grew from Lisp, showing how easy and flexible it was to develop and to "...

The Promises of Functional Programming Functional programming, although existing for quite some time now, haven´t grown up as much as the other languages (imperative and object-oriented) so to start learning a functional language when all your life has been around the other two languages can be confusing and difficult. The differences are evident from the beginning, the syntax in Clojure for example, with all those parentheses, are frustrating to handle in the beginning, however, this text shows the benefits that the functional programming has and that make it worth to learn a new language with a completely different "way" of coding. The main advantage that I agree with the reading is the benefits of concurrency and parallelism, functional programming doesn't use variables, so the main problems with these two things can be, in theory, be solved easily or avoided, however, like I said at the beginning of this entry, functional programming isn't as mature and dev...

The Semicolon Wars I'm actually a part of the group that thinks that also real life languages have different properties that makes that not everything can be expressed the same way between two languages, that some have an easiness for expressing one idea but trouble for other, and it's not that they were created focusing on expressing something in particular but considering that the needs that people had a long time ago when languages were created are very different from the ones existing now, I think that some languages managed to adapt to a continuously changing world easily than others thanks to how they were built and how their structures work in general. I know that nowadays, to construct a universal language is impossible, in real life languages and in computer languages, the society and world although unified, has it's pillars built from different material (or in this case, languages), all of which vary in so many ways that it was needed to develop some new lang...

Hello buddies! I´m Marco Antonio Ríos Gutiérrez (the shy guy with freckles) and I have 21 years old. What I mostly like up to this point on my university career is networking and as you may be guessing I plan to work at Cisco Systems, although there's still plenty of courses and thing to learn at school so I hope that on this class I'll find another interest for my further professional development (maybe programming will be again, an option). Actually from this course I expect to regain my strength (if it can be called like that) in programming since, right now, I don't feel confident with my overall level and skills, that't my main goal/expectation for the course. What I most like to do (like most ISC students) is gaming, love The Legend of Zelda and Pokémon since I have memory; recently I received an Xbox One and also began to do some PC gaming with what my little laptop can support :( so I divide my time among those 3 platforms. I really like movie...