Programming Languages

Pair programming is one of the most important methodologies to develop software. Over the years it has been seen how it works and how it increases the productivity and efficiency of developers with this kind of software development. However, in some cases, the programmers resist the idea of working with other people due to not being familiar with this methodology, but when there has been proof of its effectiveness, it is easier to the developers to adopt this way of working. Image taken of Google Now we will talk about the main points to get an excellent dynamic of pair programming and how not to die trying. Share everything. It will be a good experience if you and your peer try to share your ideas. Principally, this can help you to create more efficient and stronger code.  Enhance your skills. Another important point is that you and your partner change roles continuously. Practicing this activity is important because it can enhance your programming skills. Don'...

In this podcast we listen to Rich Hickey, the creator of Clojure, talking about which were the main characteristics about it. Clojure is an important tool and programming language because it is a dynamic program language for JVM. This advantage allows Clojure to be adaptable for any host platform, concurrency, functional and based on Lisp. Although Lisp is a simple and elegant programming language, it is not known due to that it is studied individually, contrary to what we would think about this language.  Even with these particularities, Clojure keeps being a great tool to program in. For example, we can create programs that  are writing programs, we can handle a high level of function abstraction and we can benefit from its access to all Java libraries. It could be complicate coding everything with list but in Clojure, we also have data structures as vectors and maps. Clojure looks like a simple program in contrast to Java and its syntax, although the abstraction of Clo...

Lisp is one of the first functional programming languages in the world. This paradigm is very different from programming languages and paradigms that we frequently use. In this podcast, Dick Gabriel tells us how was his experience with Lisp and how it still is the most important base for other functional languages.  In the first minutes, Dick Gabriel tells us all about his background and his personal interest in functional programming languages. Also, he comments on how Lisp works through functions and his abstraction level. For example, the main form in which Lisp works is receiving arguments in its functions and returning values. It is interesting to know that Lisp is used by programmers to construct artificial intelligence performance to know how life or humans works and their limitations. These kind of examples are a little bit simple to represent in functional languages as Lisp.  Dick Gabriel in the podcast tells us how Lisp, despite of being an elegant programmin...

Most of the programs that one develops as a student of computer systems are highly likely to have been designed in an imperative paradigm, since it is one of the most common ways in which it is currently programmed. However, as technological trends evolve, you also have to start contemplating other forms of programming and one of the best options that has emerged in these times is the functional programming that due to its robustness, efficiency and parallelization has become a totally viable paradigm to generate software. It is hard to realize that in functional programming it is not essential to use variables or cycles. This is because, literally, the functions act in a mathematical sense and do not work like the routines to which we are accustomed. Even getting to have a good performance in functional programming depends on how willing we are to forget the way we program and start accepting new programming schemes. Among the things most present in functional programming is ...