Steve Wampler <[email protected]> skribis: > One thing to keep in mind is that Icon *is* different than > conventional languages - and one does have to shift how one > thinks to make the most advantage of it. However, what I've > found is that this shift *also* helps in programming other > languages - one learns to think more in terms of concise solutions > to problems - with the result that the final code becomes cleaner.
The two languages that most improved my general programming skills were Icon and Caml. Both were plateau-changers, by introducing entirely new ways to think of problems, though Icon allowed me to write Fortran programs in it for some time. (Learning Caml also introduced me to type safety, which is far more useful than I would have expected from experience with ordinary ‘type safety’. However, experience with type safety is not so easily translated to other languages, while functional programming is.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference _______________________________________________ Unicon-group mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unicon-group
