[ale] Programming Languages and Personality?

[Leam Hall]

I find myself greatly influenced by the community around the language 
and the books on the topic. Mentoring is beyond my skill; I was as much 
a learner as the others. The issue is the longer term sticking with it 
and the community of encouragement.

I started looking at some languages based on "Crafter" (C, Go) versus 
"Producer" (Ruby, Python). Not to say the language can't flow back and 
forth but they tend to attract a type of mindset. That was the original 
theory, anyway. I'm more of a Producer; quickly make something and share 
it. Crafters make fewer things but do them really really well.

Not sure if that image really holds water but I think the community 
attitude can influence newbies' enthusiasm based on similar mindsets.

On 07/01/17 10:22, Scott M. Jones wrote:
> Did you find mentoring in C useful?  Would it help in any other language?
> 
> -Scott
> 
> On 7/1/17 5:41 AM, Leam Hall wrote:
>> 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
>