http://alexras.info/2008/08/21/automatic-everything/ I make things that do stuff with computers Sat, 05 Jun 2010 11:31:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://alexras.info/2008/08/21/automatic-everything/comment-page-1/#comment-175 Nicholas Peterson Sat, 01 Nov 2008 16:12:25 +0000 http://alexras.info/?p=281#comment-175 I feel you, I don't touch alchemy if I can help it. I had a project where we had to design advanced hash tables and I stared into the darkness for too long. I feel like the problem with a lot of web 2.0 stuff is that people automatically believe new is better. Ruby is relatively new, so it must be good. The problem is that when it comes down to it, C does pretty much everything you would ever need to do in programming only faster than interpreted languages. It's just harder to conceptualize and do. I feel that the web is purposefully given these languages to give it's developers some sanity after years of having to write programs for lackluster browsers. Pretty soon all this will be fixed and we'll all be talking about how shit IE10 handles VRML2.0 because we needs digg posts in 3d. I feel you, I don’t touch alchemy if I can help it. I had a project where we had to design advanced hash tables and I stared into the darkness for too long. I feel like the problem with a lot of web 2.0 stuff is that people automatically believe new is better. Ruby is relatively new, so it must be good. The problem is that when it comes down to it, C does pretty much everything you would ever need to do in programming only faster than interpreted languages. It’s just harder to conceptualize and do. I feel that the web is purposefully given these languages to give it’s developers some sanity after years of having to write programs for lackluster browsers. Pretty soon all this will be fixed and we’ll all be talking about how shit IE10 handles VRML2.0 because we needs digg posts in 3d.

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