[ale] Programming Languages and Personality?

[Leam Hall]

Michael, flipped through the first few pages of the book on Amazon. The 
author seems to raise good questions. Does he answer them? I'd like to 
move forward in my coding skills but seem to be hitting blocks. Trying 
to understand the mental game so I can adjust and move forward.

On 06/30/17 16:59, Michael Potter wrote:
> "Perl, once my language of choice, now makes me physically nauseous." 
> +100.  I curse the day I started to learn Perl.
> 
> This book is a very interesting book.  Good for an airplane:
> https://www.amazon.com/Psychology-Computer-Programming-Silver-Anniversary/dp/0932633420
> 
> I think in C.
> 
> I am learning R and golang right now.
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 4:33 PM, Leam Hall <leamhall at gmail.com 
> <mailto:leamhall at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Skipping over the long term coders who can do anything with
>     assembler, I'm trying to root out some personality thoughts on
>     programming languages. I'll have some alone time and would like to
>     make some coding progress; things have slowed while I learn Ansible.
> 
>     What has my interest is the mental perception I have of different
>     languages. Ruby, and to a slightly lesser extent PHP, are just fun.
>     Go, and C, are more academic and I find them powerful and dreary.
>     Python is somewhere in the middle and Perl, once my language of
>     choice, now makes me physically nauseous.
> 
>     Does anyone else have this perception, even if the reaction to the
>     same languages is different? More to the point, what can be done to
>     alter the personal reception of a language? Ruby makes me want to
>     code, C makes me want to sleep. Python makes me read e-mail to recover.
> 
>     Leam
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