Comments on: The Scary Future World I Will Program In http://www.littlehart.net/atthekeyboard/2009/11/12/the-scary-future-world-i-will-program-in/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss Facebook should've be written in unicornSchemaLang, because everyone *knows* that PHP is no good for anything, right? Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:07:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Peter Robinett http://www.littlehart.net/atthekeyboard/2009/11/12/the-scary-future-world-i-will-program-in/comment-page-1/#comment-14833 Peter Robinett Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:10:27 +0000 http://www.littlehart.net/atthekeyboard/?p=584#comment-14833 After spending a lot of time with PHP and Python I have spent the last few months learning Scala. I made the choice specifically because of the good things I was hearing about its concurrency support and its actors library (inspired by Erlang's actors). It's not the easiest language to pick up but I'm enjoying learning it and definitely recommend checking it out if you're looking to learn a new language that deals with concurrency well. After spending a lot of time with PHP and Python I have spent the last few months learning Scala. I made the choice specifically because of the good things I was hearing about its concurrency support and its actors library (inspired by Erlang’s actors). It’s not the easiest language to pick up but I’m enjoying learning it and definitely recommend checking it out if you’re looking to learn a new language that deals with concurrency well.

]]> By: Robert Navarro http://www.littlehart.net/atthekeyboard/2009/11/12/the-scary-future-world-i-will-program-in/comment-page-1/#comment-14832 Robert Navarro Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:52:08 +0000 http://www.littlehart.net/atthekeyboard/?p=584#comment-14832 To aid in your quest for knowledge, I found this thread quite helpful to distinguish concurrency from parallelism: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1050222/concurrency-vs-parallelism-what-is-the-difference To aid in your quest for knowledge, I found this thread quite helpful to distinguish concurrency from parallelism:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1050222/concurrency-vs-parallelism-what-is-the-difference

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