About this Book
Programming languages vary a great deal on the productivity spectrum. On the one extreme, we have machine code and assembly language. Then come languages like C, eventually giving way to C++, Java, Scala, and others. On the other side of the spectrum are the functional and dynamic languages. Some of the favorites here include Ruby, Python, Perl, Erlang, Haskell, ML, and others. And these are just a tiny fraction of the landscape—there are dozens of other popular languages, and hundreds more that aren’t in as much use.
With this dizzying alphabet soup of options, how does one choose the right language? Quite rightly, a lot of folks realize that there is no single correct choice, and that it depends on the job at hand. Even so, ...
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