Sunday, March 28, 2010

Out with the new, in with the old!

Ok I'm sick of it now. Too many new languages in too little time.
Getting to know all of these languages was fun, but now I actually want to make something.
I ported my comicgrab code to Erlang and I'm going to continue writing in Erlang. It has a nice growing community, lots of resources on the web, good documentation and books and most importantly these days; it doesn't give me a headache when I work with it for longer than an hour.
I've blogged not so long ago that Erlang was 'too easy'. A lot of people misunderstood what I meant by that. I wanted a challenge in the form of 'solving an easy problem with a difficult to use tool'.
Turns out all that does is give you a headache. So now I'm going to solve this not-so-easy-problem-when-you-think-about-it with an easy to use tool. Easier than all the other ones I've tried anyway. So out with all the new languages I won't use anyway, and in with the old Erlang I've already used for a couple of non-trivial things and have loved ever since.

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