Some Random Blog

I love programming languages. Learning a new one is one of my favorite computer-related activities to do. Right now my favorite is Ruby for reasons I'll get into at another time. There are a few others, though, that have caught my attention lately:

• Erlang: There's something really powerful about a language where remote procedure calls are built into the language. I also realized (again) how cool tail recursion can be. I don't have any ideas trying to get out of my head that would find Erlang useful now, but I really want to play with it more.
• Scala: Scala is an interesting language. It's strongly typed with type inference, which I find very cool and wish more languages would try. It also supports the actor model (like Erlang) and some really crazy generic programming constructs. To me it seems like magic. It also runs on the JVM, which means I get every library people can think of right off the bat. Score!

I also found the article by Stostroup here to be really interesting. It's about 50 pages long, but well worth reading if you're interested in or (are forced to) use C++ at all.