[ale] Programming Languages and Personality?

[Scott M. Jones]

Did you find mentoring in C useful?  Would it help in any other language?

-Scott

On 7/1/17 5:41 AM, Leam Hall wrote:
> Michael, flipped through the first few pages of the book on Amazon. The
> author seems to raise good questions. Does he answer them? I'd like to
> move forward in my coding skills but seem to be hitting blocks. Trying
> to understand the mental game so I can adjust and move forward.
> 
> On 06/30/17 16:59, Michael Potter wrote:
>> "Perl, once my language of choice, now makes me physically nauseous."
>> +100.  I curse the day I started to learn Perl.
>>
>> This book is a very interesting book.  Good for an airplane:
>> https://www.amazon.com/Psychology-Computer-Programming-Silver-Anniversary/dp/0932633420
>>
>>
>> I think in C.
>>
>> I am learning R and golang right now.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 4:33 PM, Leam Hall <leamhall at gmail.com
>> <mailto:leamhall at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Skipping over the long term coders who can do anything with
>>     assembler, I'm trying to root out some personality thoughts on
>>     programming languages. I'll have some alone time and would like to
>>     make some coding progress; things have slowed while I learn Ansible.
>>
>>     What has my interest is the mental perception I have of different
>>     languages. Ruby, and to a slightly lesser extent PHP, are just fun.
>>     Go, and C, are more academic and I find them powerful and dreary.
>>     Python is somewhere in the middle and Perl, once my language of
>>     choice, now makes me physically nauseous.
>>
>>     Does anyone else have this perception, even if the reaction to the
>>     same languages is different? More to the point, what can be done to
>>     alter the personal reception of a language? Ruby makes me want to
>>     code, C makes me want to sleep. Python makes me read e-mail to
>> recover.
>>
>>     Leam