http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2009/05/11/can-a-programming-language-make-you-happy/ EBB is the ebiquity research group\\\'s blog at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). We focus on technologies that facilitate the design, implementation and control of distributed, intelligent information systems -- mobile and pervasive computing, ad hoc networking, multiagent systems, knowledge representation and reasoning, and the semantic web. As the tides of technology ebb and flow, we hope the good ideas wash up on our beach and the bad ones drift back out to sea. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:39:45 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2009/05/11/can-a-programming-language-make-you-happy/comment-page-1/#comment-29474 Technology Slice Sat, 16 May 2009 14:33:55 +0000 http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/?p=1855#comment-29474 Java has the be the most wretched language to learn. I used to hate C++. That was until I jumped into the horrifying world of Java. Java has the be the most wretched language to learn. I used to hate C++. That was until I jumped into the horrifying world of Java.

]]> http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2009/05/11/can-a-programming-language-make-you-happy/comment-page-1/#comment-29457 Daniel Weinreb Thu, 14 May 2009 11:22:33 +0000 http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/?p=1855#comment-29457 Lisp is making a real comeback. I recently ran the International Lisp Conference 2009 (ilc09.org) and there's quite a lot of exciting stuff going on. I work at ITA Software, where we are building a new airline reservation system; I'm one of the assistant architects. The core is written in Common Lisp, about 600,000 lines of code, not counting open-source libraries. It's great! Lisp is making a real comeback. I recently ran the International Lisp Conference 2009 (ilc09.org) and there’s quite a lot of exciting stuff going on. I work at ITA Software, where we are building a new airline reservation system; I’m one of the assistant architects. The core is written in Common Lisp, about 600,000 lines of code, not counting open-source libraries. It’s great!

]]> http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2009/05/11/can-a-programming-language-make-you-happy/comment-page-1/#comment-29434 Random Detox Tue, 12 May 2009 01:30:10 +0000 http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/?p=1855#comment-29434 I agree, C, though it is very powerful, is also very hard to use. LISP is deffo fun, but you'd go crazy over the sheer number of parentheses! I wonder why PHP isn't here? I agree, C, though it is very powerful, is also very hard to use. LISP is deffo fun, but you’d go crazy over the sheer number of parentheses! I wonder why PHP isn’t here?

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