In todays post I’ll talk a bit about the second programming language I learnt, PHP. I believe I learnt it by myself in the first year of my education, and if I don’t remember all wrong, I also had a course on it my second or third year at school. For a few years I used it frequently, and I built several web sites with PHP, however now I haven’t really used it for a year or two. ...
In todays post of 24 Days of Hello World, I look into a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics, called R. This language is an implementation of the language “S”, combined with lexical scoping. The software environment is primarily written in C, Fortran and R. While there are graphical front-ends available, R have a command line interface as a default. History Created by Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman, R was named based on the first letters in the first names of its authors. It was created in 1993. After that, it has been further developed, with releases quite often, up til the latest release 3.2.2, which was released a few months back. ...
For the eight hatch of 24 Days of Hello World I look into Haskell. Haskell is a language I merely have heard of before, so it is definitely interesting to see what it is and what it can be applied to. Haskell is a general-purpose purely functional language, using strong static typing and non-strict semantics. It is as an open-source product, which allows rapid development of what it claims to be robust and concise software. It has support for integration with other languages, built-in concurrency and parallelism, rich libraries and an active community. ...
Today we move into a technology, rather than a language itself. Originally this post was going to be about JavaScript, but I thought it would be better to show off Node.js. Node.js is an open-source, cross-platform runtime environment, created to develop server-side web applications. Node is designed to optimize an applications throughput for real-time applications. It does this by utilizing non-blocking I/O API, and an event-driven architecture. To execute code it relies on Google V8 JavaScript engine, and most of the basic modules are written in JavaScript. ...
Today I am looking into functional programming. More specifically I’ll look into F#, a strongly typed, multi-paradigm language. Often used as a cross-platform common language infrastructure language. It is developed by F# Software Foundation, Microsoft and open contributors. It is supported in Visual Studio and Xamarin Studio, and it has its own open source, cross-platform compiler. History F# was originally designed and implemented by Don Syme, from Microsoft Research, and it was first released in 2005, supporting .NET 1.0 – 3.5, and the Windows platform. Features included functional programming, records, tuples, pattern matching, structs, scripting files, modules and .NET interoperability, to mention a few. ...