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• At 20 November '05 - 02:13 Kevin wrote:

  

  Interesting, yet totally wrong article. He talks about programming languages to illustrate Ruby shouldn’t be the next language you need to tackle. What he really is talking about (if I get this straight: I’m struggling to read the entire article) is programming concepts. The summary in the follow-up article however is correct.
  
  If you’ve got the time to play around with Scheme or Prolog, go ahead. It will certainly broaden your perspective on problem solving. If you’re looking for a language to do your next project in: pick the right language. And trust me: Scheme, Lisp or Prolog will probably not be fit for the job.

  
  

• At 20 November '05 - 11:21 Stoyan wrote:

  

  Intersting, thanks for the link!
  Apparently the title is a bit more provocative than the actual article. There’s an update to the article, where the author actually recommends Rails:
  http://weblog.hypotheticalabs.com/?p=65

  
  

• At 21 November '05 - 06:23 Michel Oosterhof wrote:

  The article is just the (old) argument to learn a functional programming langague to broaden your horizons. And it is true, they do require you to “think differently”, and not just in the Apple sense of the phrase.
  
  However, LISP and its varieties are not in wide use at this moment, they will not make good programming languages for your next web project. It’s not that it’s impossible, in fact there are code libraries around for this, but it’s just that you will be diverging far from the mainstream.
  
  At the same time, we see the adoption of a large number of features of functional languages in later versions of Python and Ruby. So a functional language could also improve your knowledge of these languages.

  
  

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