Smalltalk: An Entrepreneur's Secret Weapon(medium.com) |
Smalltalk: An Entrepreneur's Secret Weapon(medium.com) |
I'd like to encourage Smalltalk advocates to write more "from the trenches" posts. A Haskell is a great comparison: it looks like every few weeks there is a post on using Haskell in production, like [0].. Those posts work much than abstract claims of "tremendous benefits" and "magical language".
It contains "solid" articles from Leandro Caniglia and Lorenzo Schiavina.
It also contains an article about his recent programming competition (currently under way): https://smalltalk.tech.blog/2020/02/08/the-results-are-in/.
This is one heck of a competition, and it's a great promotion for Pharo!
So I'm telling all my friends and colleagues to give Smalltalk a try. Does that invalidate my efforts?
This study was published within the last decade (2017): https://www.ifpug.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/IYSM.-Thirt....
It contains data for languages like Ceylon (2011), Dart (2011), Elixir (2011), F# (2005), Go (2009), Haxe (2005), and Julia (2012). So, no, not decades old.
Moreover, Haskell is an old language that has only recently come into the limelight. It's considered new-ish.
The study does contain data for languages going all the way back to the 1960s. This is a Good Thing. It means we have a statistically huge sample size which only further supports its validity.
In fact, this is the largest study of its kind. Why would anybody want a small sample size that only covers a few languages from the last 20 years???
Even Haskell hasn't done that well using this approach. With all these "from the trenches" posts, Haskell is still only #45 at TIOBE. It's #26 at PYPL and falling! In terms of pull requests at GitHub, Haskell is #28 and falling! See https://madnight.github.io/githut/#/pull_requests/2019/2.
Is there a Python tutorial where you can learn all of Python's syntax within 15 minutes?
A syntax so easy, you can teach your grandma in 15 minutes.
The second thing to learn is that the dollar sign ($) signifies a character value, so $b is the value of the character "b" and $c is the value of the character "c".
#() signifies a literal array created at compile time.
Thus, #($a #a 'a' 1 1.0) is an array that contains the character $a, the symbol #a, the string 'a', the integer 1, and the floating value 1.0). Easy peasy.