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Programming Languages (Part I)

Jan 10, 2008 — Whitney Young

Throughout the years I've learned a good number of languages. Really it's not that hard to learn a new language since most languages are iterative, object oriented languages. It's mostly just syntax differences. There are some major differences between features that languages offer that make some languages 'better' than others. I'm going to attempt to compare different languages without bias, though that's extremely hard to do.

First, what are the features that a language should support? I've listed some important features below and will go into detail on why I think each of these features is important.

  • Compiled
  • Readability
  • Object oriented
  • Reflection
  • Type checking
  • Lambda expressions
  • Categories
  • Good error messages
  • Altering classes and objects at runtime
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Senuti with iPhone and iPod Touch — Experimental support

Jan 10, 2008 — Whitney Young

Senuti 0.50.2b1 has been released which includes experimental support for the iPod Touch and the iPhone. Please let me know if this works properly or not.

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