Comment by fennecfoxen
12 years ago
"everything from MATLAB to LabVIEW to Assembler to PHP."
This is kind of a litany of relatively-unstructured programming languages and sounds like a relatively one-dimensional view of computer program organization techniques. Of those listed, PHP is the one with the most advanced code-organization and object model, but its object model is hardly renowned.
Have you ever considered learning something like Ruby in depth and messing around with intensive object-oriented techniques and write-your-own-DSL metaprogramming and the like, so you can know how the other half of the world gets to program?
(ed) oh, and here's me getting -1'd. wonder what that's about. probably someone with thin skin thinking that asking about highly structured programming implies a put-down on the other kind. maybe I could put in some words of praise for Matlab's awesome matrix handling and it'd help? :P
My languages of choice are JavaScript, SQL and Python and I've gone quite deep in all of them. I'd consider ObjectScript compiling down to efficiently work through SQL queries or to form objects and other things a metalanguage, so Caché isn't as one-dimensionally pure imperative as you'd think.
I don't have any formal background in computer science, so thank you for pointing this out, and it's true. In a nutshell, you're telling me to work through SICP, right? :P
Edit: Yes, you need to mention MATLAB's matrix handling. Probably also say something about NumPy and PyPy, I'm sure that'd help too.
Okay! Since you HAVE done something like Python that's good to know; knowledge of your experience colors my interpretation of your interpretations. :)