There are some new hot web server frameworks: Ruby on Rails (Ruby), Yaws+ErlyWeb (Erlang) and HAppS (Haskell.)
These new frameworks are supposed to facilitate fast development. But, how fast - and scalable - are the applications built in and for these frameworks?
The goal of this post is to get a preliminary answer to this question. NOTE: […]
A friend of mine has become an Erlang aficionado lately, and has - deliberately or not - pulled me into Erlang development I had not touched Erlang in a long time but always knew there was something about it that bothered me some twelve years ago. I forgot what, but now remember.
This post […]
If one would measure popularity by number of hits on Google, these are the five most popular computer languages:
PHP
Java
C
Flash
Perl
A graph of Google hits, using the query +lang +programming, for some of the most common languages follows. NOTE 1: please inform me if your favorite language is omitted. NOTE 2: I did not include the language […]