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Re: Name of arrays [message #79314 is a reply to message #79269]

Tue, 21 February 2012 14:44

David Fanning
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Paul van Delst writes:

> au contraire, mon ami.
>
> Increased productivity has to come from somewhere. My (almost completely vicarious) experience with the harder core
> programmer-y types is that if a language provides the mechanism to express something in fewer keystrokes, it will catch on.
>
> Look at ruby. (although the fun-ness factor shouldn't be brushed off).
>
> Mind you, the use of an editor that is language-aware, in the hands of a master, is something to behold. I watched a web
> video once of a guy demonstrating how easy it was to set up a ruby application using rails. He hardly had to type more
> than two/three characters of the reserved words before they auto-completed. Five minutes later, he had a functioning
> blogging site set up, hooked into a database, accepted comments, etc. Coded from scratch. Took my breath away.... and
> made the fancy piece of paper from the university that is hanging on my wall seem, uh, not so special. :o)

OK, I'm going to give up trolling for the day
and admit defeat. :-)

Cheers,

David

P.S. If you come across that video again, I'd like
to see it.

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Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")

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		Name of arrays By: Israel Rodriguez Herm on Sun, 19 February 2012 04:30
		Re: Name of arrays By: David Fanning on Wed, 22 February 2012 08:34
		Re: Name of arrays By: Israel Rodriguez Herm on Thu, 23 February 2012 03:40
		Re: Name of arrays By: Brian Wolven on Wed, 22 February 2012 08:22
		Re: Name of arrays By: David Fanning on Wed, 22 February 2012 05:28
		Re: Name of arrays By: Israel Rodriguez Herm on Wed, 22 February 2012 02:04
		Re: Name of arrays By: penteado on Thu, 23 February 2012 07:08
		Re: Name of arrays By: Brian Wolven on Tue, 21 February 2012 14:53
		Re: Name of arrays By: David Fanning on Tue, 21 February 2012 14:44
		Re: Name of arrays By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Tue, 21 February 2012 14:35
		Re: Name of arrays By: David Fanning on Tue, 21 February 2012 14:33
		Re: Name of arrays By: penteado on Tue, 21 February 2012 14:27
		Re: Name of arrays By: David Fanning on Tue, 21 February 2012 14:21
		Re: Name of arrays By: penteado on Tue, 21 February 2012 14:02
		Re: Name of arrays By: Israel Rodriguez Herm on Thu, 23 February 2012 16:12
		Re: Name of arrays By: penteado on Tue, 21 February 2012 14:11
		Re: Name of arrays By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Tue, 21 February 2012 14:09
		Re: Name of arrays By: David Fanning on Tue, 21 February 2012 14:06
		Re: Name of arrays By: penteado on Tue, 21 February 2012 13:58
		Re: Name of arrays By: David Fanning on Tue, 21 February 2012 13:43
		Re: Name of arrays By: Israel Rodriguez Herm on Tue, 21 February 2012 12:36
		Re: Name of arrays By: Craig Markwardt on Tue, 21 February 2012 08:38
		Re: Name of arrays By: David Fanning on Tue, 21 February 2012 07:12
		Re: Name of arrays By: Craig Markwardt on Tue, 21 February 2012 06:49
		Re: Name of arrays By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Tue, 21 February 2012 06:50
		Re: Name of arrays By: Israel Rodriguez Herm on Tue, 21 February 2012 06:35
		Re: Name of arrays By: David Fanning on Tue, 21 February 2012 05:36
		Re: Name of arrays By: Israel Rodriguez Herm on Tue, 21 February 2012 04:45
		Re: Name of arrays By: Craig Markwardt on Mon, 20 February 2012 19:17
		Re: Name of arrays By: David Fanning on Thu, 23 February 2012 12:21
		Re: Name of arrays By: Israel Rodriguez Herm on Thu, 23 February 2012 12:17
		Re: Name of arrays By: David Fanning on Thu, 23 February 2012 11:16
		Re: Name of arrays By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Thu, 23 February 2012 10:32
		Re: Name of arrays By: Israel Rodriguez Herm on Thu, 23 February 2012 10:14
		Re: Name of arrays By: David Fanning on Thu, 23 February 2012 09:30
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