OT: Good Programming Courses Suggestions for technique rather than language

[Rajinder Yadav]

On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Lennart
Sorensen<lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 02:00:00AM -0400, Rajinder Yadav wrote:
>> What do you mean, you don't like Ruby's everything is an object syntax like:
>>
>>       5.times { puts "hello world!".upcase }
>>
>> ;-)
>
> OK, I had never looked at ruby before.  Now I actually have a reason to
> never bother.  That is just ugly.

Like mom said, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

> You have to look all over the place
> to find out what that line is actually doing.

Ha! I expected such a reply =) ... I find it reads left to right,
there is no looking around everywhere.
execute code block 5 times -> print some text -> in upper case.


>> I am starting to believe you don't choose the language, the language
>> chooses you ... I guess whatever feels the most natural will be the best
>> tool to work in.
>
> Well maybe.  Just because a language feels natural doens't mean it is a
> good choice for a problem, but it probably has a pretty good chance of
> being a good choice in that case.
>
>> I am sure there are very good C/C++ libraries that provide text
>> extraction and perl like regex function and can do it much faster. I
>> never used these, but these look like they would fit the job.
>>
>> 1) The boost.regex lib
>> http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_39_0/libs/regex/doc/html/index.html
>>
>> 2) PCRE - Perl Compatible Regular Expressions
>> http://www.pcre.org/
>>
>> Finding the right library can make a few things less painful.
>
> libpcre is lovely, but C still sucks at strings.  C strings are awful.
>
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Kind Regards,
Rajinder Yadav

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