I got into computers at the age of 8 (1994), when a very weird lady came to our school and offered to teach us. A week after that she was back with a bunch of friends and unloaded a stack of XT’s and AT’s on an empty room.<\/p>\n
We spent two months doing exercises on paper and then she introduced us to QBasic (and DOS).<\/p>\n
After that I continued with Visual Basic (and stopped at 6, I made a couple of programs for a very good amount of money), assembler for PIC micros. I also used C with TurboC, DJGPP and even Visual C.<\/p>\n
I stumbled upon Python and its community and I fell in love. It is still my go to language for almost everything, even if only to try out solutions and then port them to the target language.<\/p>\n
The last major event was a couple (and a bit more…) years ago when I started to use more and more Javascript, from plain servers using express to fully encompassing frameworks like LoopBack. From big iron to smaller micros (besides code isomorphism is really interesting)<\/p>\n
After that I toyed with some languages but nothing really caught my attention. Among them I used Ruby, Haskell, Go and a bit of Java just for kicks or helping out long time friends. Also TCL, I\u00a0\u00a0 liked it as an extension language but I wouldn’t write an application from scratch using it. Go is really interesting (mainly because Docker and all the tools revolving around it) but I really need some itch that calls for it.<\/p>\n
The major breakthrough came when I rediscovered Forth and Erlang.<\/p>\n
Forth is really interesting as an embedded language because it’s so easy to implement and there are so many things powered by it.<\/p>\n
Erlang was on my radar for a while and has, at least on my circle of friends, this aura of mystery.<\/p>\n
After a post on PyAr<\/a> I decided to join a local group and give it a go. I started with the exercises of Learn You Some Erlang<\/a> and I couldn’t be happier.<\/p>\n It makes my head twitch and think in new ways. I just lust for the time of the day devoted to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I got into computers at the age of 8 (1994), when a very weird lady came to our school and offered to teach us. A week after that she was back with a bunch of friends and unloaded a stack of XT’s and AT’s on an empty room. We spent two months doing exercises on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[24,12,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hacks","category-psico","category-software"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pmnbC-zX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tangopardo.com.ar\/2cf7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tangopardo.com.ar\/2cf7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tangopardo.com.ar\/2cf7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tangopardo.com.ar\/2cf7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tangopardo.com.ar\/2cf7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2229"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tangopardo.com.ar\/2cf7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2232,"href":"https:\/\/tangopardo.com.ar\/2cf7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229\/revisions\/2232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tangopardo.com.ar\/2cf7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tangopardo.com.ar\/2cf7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tangopardo.com.ar\/2cf7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}