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Re: Rebooting into programming

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On 5/14/2012 12:49 PM, Phlip wrote:
> On May 11, 11:11 am, Sean Cleary<seanearly...@hotmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> Got any suggestions?
>
> - Linux (in VirtualBox on your PC)
> - Ruby on Rails
> - Test-Driven Development
> - Capybara/Selenium
>
> They are really easy to install and use AFTER you understand them and
> know how to avoid a long list of Gotchas. From here, find a Rails or
> similar users group in your area. Bring your notebook, and they'll set
> you up.
>
>> And is Object Oriented the latest thing? Has nothing replaced it? Is
>> it still considered the best thing since whenever?
>
> Nothing will replace OO, just as nothing ever replaced the Structural
> Programming that OO added virtual methods to.


I mostly still just use C and some C++...

seemed good enough for me, and sites like TIOBE seem to agree:
http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html


I also have my own scripting language, but:
it still has a vaguely C like syntax (more like JS and AS3 though);
it is fairly solidly in procedural/OO territory (it is more like C++ in 
that it can easily be used either like C or like an OO language).


so, yeah, probably not that much significantly different.

I am personally not so much into the whole "chasing rainbows" thing 
(chasing new languages or features), and so from my vantage point here 
in mundane-land, not that much seems to be going on (beyond several 
major languages half-assedly trying to bolt on closures).


or such...

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Rebooting into programming Sean Cleary <seanearlyaug@hotmail.com> - 2012-05-11 11:11 -0700
  Re: Rebooting into programming Phlip <phlip2005@gmail.com> - 2012-05-14 12:49 -0700
    Re: Rebooting into programming BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2012-05-14 17:28 -0700

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