Tweets for 2010-02-11
- @codemonkeyism How about .. every day you leave your source code "smaller" than you found it in the morning ? in reply to codemonkeyism #
- Manoj Phatak's blog: TDD and Science http://ff.im/-fLoH9 #
- @psnively printf("if I were to use a dynamically-typed language for the JVM, it'd be %s, for sure\n",dev.fav_dyn_lang) /cc @davetron5000 in reply to psnively #
- @davetron5000 the syntactic and plumbing differences across many dynamic langs are quite substantial for choice 2be not driven by style in reply to davetron5000 #
- @davetron5000 in my perception Groovy is Yuck. But there's a wide variety of interesting choices in dyn langs eg. ruby/python/clojure in reply to davetron5000 #
- @davetron5000 I could never grok why groovy exists (except in its early days as a scripting lang around java) .. but that could be my bias in reply to davetron5000 #
- @davetron5000 If jruby development was shifted back in time by 2 years I wonder if grails would've been as popular. /cc @surya_s in reply to davetron5000 #
- @surya_s Groovy & PHP are langs that started with v. modest goals and then evolved into something much bigger /cc @davetron5000 in reply to surya_s #
- @surya_s I implied the philosophical consistency of ruby, python, clojure is therefore not to be observed in PHP / Groovy @davetron5000 in reply to surya_s #
- @surya_s they would belong to the writings of esoteric language connoisseurs and in the toolkits of the sysadmins, toolbuilders in reply to surya_s #
- @surya_s I wonder if its a negative in the long run. Not sure if as many devs consider ruby seriously for non-web. Thats a rails effect. in reply to surya_s #