jan.varwig

Since I wrote about F# in August, my progress has been rather slow.
There was a lot of work to do for Uni, almost all involving final touches to Pavel, the data-analysis tool me and a few other students have developed as a student research project. We’ll publish Pavel next week on SourceForge, I’ll write a few lines about it then.

Another thing that has held me back is my fascination for Haskell. Read the rest of this entry »

I’m feeling all mad-scientistic tonight, sipping coke, with 30 tabs open in Opera :)

On my journey into the weird world of functional programming on the .NET CLR, I continue to stumble upon interesting stuff. Papers, articles, interviews, each worthy of hours of dedication. Alas, my day still has only 24 hours (I need to work around that somehow), so at the time being I can’t do much more than glance over everything. Read the rest of this entry »

Wie’s aussieht hat sich auch Steve Yegge schon damit beschäftigt:

OCaml has threads, exceptions, call-with-continuation, calling conventions to and from C, a rich standard library with collections, networking, I/O, graphics, a complete interface to the Unix programming API, and a powerful module system that blows Java’s packages away. It has interfaces and bindings for Oracle, MySQL, postgres, berkeley DBs, CORBA, COM, xml-rpc, SOAP, XML, perl-compatible regular expressions… the list goes on. You name it, it’s there.

OCaml has the potential to make me happy as a programmer, finally.

Mjamm :) Read the rest of this entry »

Wie heisst die Faustregel doch so schön? “Lerne jedes Jahr eine neue Programmiersprache”

Bisher schlage ich mich damit ganz gut:

2007: ein bißchen Python
2006: C#, Ruby, Javascript
2005: genug C++ um da in Zukunft einen Bogen herum zu machen, genug Haskell um ein permanentes distanziertes Interesse zu erhalten das vielleicht irgendwann durchschlägt in ernsthafte Auseinandersetzung.
2003/2004: Java
1999-2002: PHP, SQL Read the rest of this entry »