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My Fundamental Issue with Ruby

By Robert Fischer | Published: February 1, 2009

If you’re going to play it fast-and-loose with types, that really is fine by me. But Ruby gets on my nerves with the way it does not let me do typing when useful and yet eagerly punishes me for using the wrong types.

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Return on Investment

By Robert Fischer | Published: February 1, 2009

Over on my twitter stream, there was a brief conversation on first programming languages. Assuming you don’t count Zork, my first programming language was TI-BASIC, initially on the TI-82 but really on the TI-83. It started with creating a blackjack game because I was bored in class[1]. In short order, though, I was programming the [...]

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