Matthew Huntbach takes a long hard look at the coolest language on the planet and is distinctly under impressed by what he sees…
Friday 16 March 2007
by Matthew Huntbach
Tim Sweeney’s talk The Next Mainstream Programming Language (PowerPoint PPT) is in many ways an antidote to the recent Ruby hype. Tim calls for the use of stronger types to ensure program reliability. He praises the academically-developed Haskell functional programming language. He raises concurrency as a feature which must be tackled in the next big programming language, using a better model than the shared state with threads and mutual exclusion devices used by Java - and by Ruby - (...)
You can access the internals of a Ruby object in various ways, not only using specific methods designed for that purpose but also by using the modified values of input parameters (much as people use byref /var parameters in C/Pascal etc.) which can access values when the sender is modified, thereby building in a dependency on a method’s implementation.
