Tower of Babel: A tour of programming languages

A tour of 7 programming languages: Ruby, JS, CoffeeScript, Objective-C, Go, Clojure and Scala.

1. @merbist tower of babel A tour of programming languages Sunday, October 21, 12
2. matt aimonetti @merbist http://matt.aimonetti.net http://github.com/mattetti Sunday, October 21, 12
3. title sub title conf - Matt Aimonetti - @merbist now hiring Sunday, October 21, 12
4. Human Languages studied by linguists Sunday, October 21, 12
5. Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis linguistic differences have consequences on human cognition and behavior The principle of linguistic relativity holds that the structure of a language affects the ways in which its speakers conceptualize their world, i.e. their world view, or otherwise influences their cognitive processes. Sunday, October 21, 12
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7. interpreted compiled dynamically typed statically typed object oriented functional difficulty JavaScript X X X* X easy Ruby/Python X X X X normal CoffeeScript X X X X normal Objective-C X X X X * nightmare Java X X X hard Go X * structural X X* X normal Clojure X X (hints) * X normal/ nightmare/ hell Scala X * structural X inferred X X normal/ nightmare Sunday, October 21, 12
8. All Garbage Collected - Automatic memory management Sunday, October 21, 12
9. Interpreted vs Compiled Sunday, October 21, 12
10. Dynamically vs Statically Typed Sunday, October 21, 12
11. Object Oriented vs not OO Sunday, October 21, 12
12. Functional Programming vs not FP Sunday, October 21, 12
13. don’t judge a language based on Sunday, October 21, 12
14. Hello World Sunday, October 21, 12
15. Syntax Sunday, October 21, 12
16. Understand each language’s philosophy Sunday, October 21, 12
17. Know each language’s strong point Sunday, October 21, 12
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19. Pick your interest Sunday, October 21, 12
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24. Ruby Sunday, October 21, 12
25. Interpreted Dynamically typed Object Oriented & Functional GC Easy Sunday, October 21, 12
26. class Presentation attr_accessor :name, :topic def initialize(name, topic) self.name = name self.topic = topic end def start puts "Hi, my name is #{name} \ and I will talk about #{topic}." end end talk = Presentation.new("Matt", "Ruby") talk.start Sunday, October 21, 12
27. Ruby Use case: Full Stack Web App Sunday, October 21, 12
28. class Post < ActiveRecord::Base attr_accessible :content, :name, :title validates :name, :presence => true validates :title, :presence => true, :length => { :minimum => 5 } end Sunday, October 21, 12
29. class PostsController < ApplicationController def index @posts = Post.all respond_to do |format| format.html # FYI, render index.html.erb format.json { render :json => @posts } end end end Sunday, October 21, 12
30. Ruby Philosophy Sunday, October 21, 12
31. Ruby what I dislike Often abused Overly complex specs Hard to follow/debug Not designed for parallelism Can’t be easily optimized Design choices that are hard to revert Sunday, October 21, 12
32. Ruby what I like Expressive Malleable Human oriented Business efficient Everything is an object Functional language Great “go to” language Influenced other languages Great for DSL Sunday, October 21, 12
33. Ruby how to get started http://tryruby.org http://ruby.railstutorial.org http://railsforzombies.org Sunday, October 21, 12
34. JavaScript Sunday, October 21, 12
35. interpreted dynamically typed object oriented* & functional GC easy Sunday, October 21, 12
36. var Presentation = function(name, topic) { this.name = name; this.topic = topic; }; Presentation.prototype.start = function(){ return "Hi, my name is " + this.name + " and I will talk about " + this.topic + "." }; var talk = new Presentation('Matt', 'JS'); talk.start(); Sunday, October 21, 12
37. Use case: DOM manipulation Sunday, October 21, 12
38. $(document).ready(function() { $("#orderedlist").find("li").each(function(i) { $(this).addClass("important"); }); }); Sunday, October 21, 12
39. Philosophy Sunday, October 21, 12
40. what I dislike Scoping “Older” style syntax Limited concurrency “messy” Sunday, October 21, 12
41. what I like Omnipresent High level Simple Functional Sunday, October 21, 12
42. CoffeeScript Sunday, October 21, 12
43. compiled/interpreted dynamically typed object oriented & functional GC easy Sunday, October 21, 12
44. class Presentation constructor: (@name, @topic) -> start: () -> return "Hi, my name is " + this.name + " and I will talk about " + this.topic + "." talk = new Presentation("Matt", "CoffeeScript") talk.start() Sunday, October 21, 12
45. Use case: DOM manipulation Sunday, October 21, 12
46. $(document).ready -> $("a").hover => @parents("p").addClass("highlight") Sunday, October 21, 12
47. Philosophy Sunday, October 21, 12
48. what I dislike debugging space delimited o_O effect too many ways to do a simple thing compilation phase still requires to know JS not for everyone Sunday, October 21, 12
49. what I like Nicer syntax Tries to fix the scoping issues Easier to read (sometimes) More expressive Sunday, October 21, 12
50. how to get started http://coffeescript.org/ http://bit.ly/coffeeconsole Sunday, October 21, 12
51. Objective-C Sunday, October 21, 12
52. compiled dyn/static/weakly typed object oriented & “functional”* GC/ARC nightmare Sunday, October 21, 12
53. #import <Foundation/Foundation.h> @interface Presentation : NSObject @property (strong, nonatomic) NSString *name; @property (strong, nonatomic) NSString *topic; - (Presentation*) initWithNameAndTopic:(NSString*)name topic:(NSString*)topic; - (NSString*) start; @end presentation.h Sunday, October 21, 12
54. #import "Presentation.h" @implementation Presentation - (Presentation*)initWithNameAndTopic:(NSString *)name topic:(NSString *)topic { self = [super init]; if (self) { self.name = name; self.topic = topic; } return self; } - (NSString*)start{ return [NSString stringWithFormat:@"This is %@, \ and I will talk about %@.", self.name, self.topic]; } @end presentation.m Sunday, October 21, 12
55. #import "Presentation.h" Presentation *talk = [[Presentation alloc] initWithNameAndTopic:@"Matt" topic:@"Objective-C"]; [talk start]; example.m Sunday, October 21, 12
56. Use case: iOS Application Sunday, October 21, 12
57. Philosophy Sunday, October 21, 12
58. what I dislike Header/Implementation Feels very 80s (with a new carpet) Annoying syntax Apple centric Sunday, October 21, 12
59. what I like Object Oriented C Weakly typed New literals Blocks Good tooling Performant Designed with Cocoa in mind Cocoa Sunday, October 21, 12
60. how to get started https://developer.apple.com/ http://bit.ly/ios-programming http://bit.ly/objc-programming Sunday, October 21, 12
61. Go Sunday, October 21, 12
62. compiled structural/static typing object oriented* functional GC normal Sunday, October 21, 12
63. package demo import "fmt" type Presentation struct { " Name, Topic string } func (p *Presentation) start() string { " return "This is " + p.Name + ", and I will talk about " + p.Topic + "." } func main() { " talk := &Presentation{Name: "Matt", Topic: "Go"} " fmt.Println(talk.start()) } Sunday, October 21, 12
64. Use case: concurrency Sunday, October 21, 12
65. package main import ( " "fmt" " "net/http" " "time" ) var urls = []string{ " "http://pulsoconf.co/", " "http://golang.org/", " "http://matt.aimonetti.net/", } type HttpResponse struct { " url string " response *http.Response " err error } Sunday, October 21, 12
66. func asyncHttpGets(urls []string) []*HttpResponse { " ch := make(chan *HttpResponse, len(urls)) // buffered " responses := []*HttpResponse{} " for _, url := range urls { " " go func(url string) { " " " fmt.Printf("Fetching %s \n", url) " " " resp, err := http.Get(url) " " " ch <- &HttpResponse{url, resp, err} " " }(url) " } " for { " " select { " " case r := <-ch: " " " fmt.Printf("%s was fetched\n", r.url) " " " responses = append(responses, r) " " " if len(responses) == len(urls) { " " " " return responses " " " } " " default: " " " fmt.Printf(".") " " " time.Sleep(5e7) " " } " } " return responses } Sunday, October 21, 12
67. func main() { " results := asyncHttpGets(urls) " for _, result := range results { " " fmt.Printf("%s status: %s\n", result.url, result.response.Status) " } } Sunday, October 21, 12
68. $ go build concurrency_example.go && ./a.out .Fetching http://pulsoconf.co/ Fetching http://golang.org/ Fetching http://matt.aimonetti.net/ .....http://golang.org/ was fetched .......http://pulsoconf.co/ was fetched .http://matt.aimonetti.net/ was fetched http://golang.org/ status: 200 OK http://pulsoconf.co/ status: 200 OK http://matt.aimonetti.net/ status: 200 OK Sunday, October 21, 12
69. Philosophy Sunday, October 21, 12
70. what I dislike A bit too low level for some Not so great GC Limited adoption Odd conventions at times Sunday, October 21, 12
71. what I like simple specs modern std libs concurrency (goroutines/channels) sensible conventions fast compilation flexible code organization simpler take on OO features of FP error handling documentation source as documentation Sunday, October 21, 12
72. how to get started http://tour.golang.org Sunday, October 21, 12
73. Clojure Sunday, October 21, 12
74. compiled dynamically typed (w/ hints) “object oriented*” functional GC nightmare Sunday, October 21, 12
75. (defprotocol Talk "A conference talk" (start [p] "return the speaker and topic.")) (defrecord Presentation [name topic] Talk; implement the Talk protocol (start [_] (str "Hi, this is " name " and I will talk about " topic "."))) (def talk (Presentation. "Matt" "Clojure")) (start talk) Sunday, October 21, 12
76. Use case: Data Processing Sunday, October 21, 12
77. (ns example.word-count (:use clojure.contrib.io clojure.contrib.seq-utils)) (defn parse-line [line] (let [tokens (.split (.toLowerCase line) " ")] (map #(vector % 1) tokens))) (defn combine [mapped] (->> (apply concat mapped) (group-by first) (map (fn [[k v]] {k (map second v)})) (apply merge-with conj))) (defn sum [[k v]] {k (apply + v)}) (defn reduce-parsed-lines [collected-values] (apply merge (map sum collected-values))) (defn word-frequency [filename] (->> (read-lines filename) (map parse-line) (combine) (reduce-parsed-lines))) Sunday, October 21, 12
78. Philosophy Sunday, October 21, 12
79. what I dislike not so simple not always consistent need to know a lot of functions/macros not really web focused brain stack overflow hard mental context switch meaningless error stacks Sunday, October 21, 12
80. what I like really great for data processing isolate problems efficiently fast java interop Sunday, October 21, 12
81. how to get started https://github.com/functional-koans/clojure-koans Sunday, October 21, 12
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83. compiled static/inferred/dyn typed object oriented & functional GC normal/nightmare Sunday, October 21, 12
84. class Presentation(val name: String, val topic: String) { val start = "My name is "+ name + " and I will talk about " + topic +"." } val talk = new Presentation("Matt", "Scala") talk.start Sunday, October 21, 12
85. Use case: Service Oriented Architecture Sunday, October 21, 12
86. Twitter’s Finagle Sunday, October 21, 12
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88. Future + pipeline Sunday, October 21, 12
89. val authenticatedUser: Future[User] = User.authenticate(email, password) val lookupTweets: Future[Seq[Tweet]] = authenticatedUser flatMap { user => Tweet.findAllByUser(user) } Sunday, October 21, 12
90. for { user <- User.authenticate(email, password) tweets <- Tweet.findAllByUser(user) } yield tweets Sunday, October 21, 12
91. Futures also exist in Java, Akka/Scala 2.10, scalaz, lift... Sunday, October 21, 12
92. Finagle: async, blocking or not futures that are composable Sunday, October 21, 12
93. val service = new Service[HttpRequest, HttpResponse] { def apply(request: HttpRequest) = Future(new DefaultHttpResponse(HTTP_1_1, OK)) } val address = new InetSocketAddress(10000) val server: Server[HttpRequest, HttpResponse] = ServerBuilder() .name("MyWebServer") .codec(Http()) .bindTo(address) .build(service) Sunday, October 21, 12
94. Philosophy Sunday, October 21, 12
95. what I dislike huge surface stiff learning curve abused o_O syntax poor documentation feels like it’s trying to do everything JVM Sunday, October 21, 12
96. what I like Close to Ruby/Python Easy to get started Inferred types Flexible functional approach Modern concerns (parallelism) Pattern matching Relatively rich ecosystem JVM/CLR Sunday, October 21, 12
97. where to get started Twitter’s Scala school A Tour of scala Coursera’s online class Sunday, October 21, 12
98. conclusion Sunday, October 21, 12
99. sub title conf - Matt Aimonetti - @merbist “zend” developer Sunday, October 21, 12
100. “java” developer Sunday, October 21, 12
101. developer Sunday, October 21, 12
102. problem solver Sunday, October 21, 12
103. product builder Sunday, October 21, 12
104. <insert language> is just a detail Sunday, October 21, 12
105. but choose wisely Sunday, October 21, 12
106. languages shape how you solve problems Sunday, October 21, 12
107. be curious learn a new language Sunday, October 21, 12
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