To Each His Own
Couple days back I posted about how I don’t like Maven, and how I feel that Maven is not good for open source development.
If it’s one thing that I’ve learned in this last month, it’s that different systems have different advantages. Web chat boards loose information, for example, but that only means that people will put forward short, meaningful messages. Web boards were a surprisingly effective organization tool.
I’d like to find the ability to work with a couple different systems and languages to find new ideas, and act as a conduit. I’m leaning towards Scheme my functional alternative to Java. There’s no point in getting back into C++ without learning functional programming, if you know what I mean.
I’m learning a lot from hacking JavaScript. A lot about getting things done, doing what works. The nice thing about hacking JavaScript is that I know so much about it. It is suddenly fashionable, and I’m finding that there are things that I know from experience, that many have yet to experience. At the same time, there are things that people figured out that eluded those many moons ago.
I like shell scripting, and I like following along in compl.unix.shell . Unfortunately, I feel that the information I gather there gets lost, since I’ve got no place to put it. I’m afraid that the same thing happens if I dabble in Ruby.
I’m willing to learn from other people’s experiences. Java has been a place with too many strictures, however. Not so much learning, more like dictating.
That’s about it for this post. I don’t like blogging, much. Just want a place to put ideas, don’t want to have to write articles.