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Hidde-Jan

Member since Jan 28, 2011

Recent Blog Comments By Hidde-Jan

  • Seven Languages In Seven Weeks By Bruce Tate - What An Adventure

    Posted on Jan 28, 2011 at 3:38 PM

    @Ben Before I started programming in Pyhon I did a lot of PHP and I had no idea about the power of this stuff. Python's list comprehensions just make me smile :D >>> [(x, chr(x + 97)) for x in range(6) if not x % 2] [(0, 'a'), (2, 'c'), (4, 'e')] What makes ColdFusion special f... read more »

  • Seven Languages In Seven Weeks By Bruce Tate - What An Adventure

    Posted on Jan 28, 2011 at 3:13 PM

    @Ben Yeah :) Like you, I also started learning Haskell this week and I really like the idea of defining what something is rather than saying how something should be computed. It feels really mathematical, which, for me, is a big plus. From all the languages displayed here, I'm partial to Python an... read more »

  • Seven Languages In Seven Weeks By Bruce Tate - What An Adventure

    Posted on Jan 28, 2011 at 2:25 PM

    soAdj :: String -> [String] -> [String] soAdj adj names = [n ++ sentence | n <- names] where sentence = " is so " ++ adj ++ "."   > let names = ["Ben", "Wilkins", "Mike", "Seth"] > soAdj "serious" names ["Ben ... read more »

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