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#+Title: Programming experiences and choices
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#+Author: Yann Esposito
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#+Select_tags: Programming, culture
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* TODO Introduction
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Why each programmer tend to prefer some programming language to solve its problems.
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How are we creating our preferrences?
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Why one use vim and the other one can use a specialized IDE?
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* Preferences depends on experiences
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** Hard to understand
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** Goals
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* Back Story
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** At first
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- Logo when I was 10yo at school
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- Basic when I was 11yo, with a book trying to draw lines and make games
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- Basic with Amtrad CPC 6128, trying to write games from magasines
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- Compiled Basic with Atari STe, write a game you are the hero in it.
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- Take some courses of beginner Pascal at school, sort algorithms
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** Math Background then Computer Science
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- Pascal for algorithmic
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- C, for basics, system and network
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- C++, Eiffel for Object Oriented Programming
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- A little bit of CaML (write a mathematical expression simplifier making big
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usage of pattern matching)
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** Ph. D. In Machine Learning
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- Give courses of Logo, C, etc...
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- Write lot of complex HMM related algorithms in C++ with quite complex ML algorithms
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- Discover Java and its promises, play a bit with it
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- Have friend that use CaML for its Ph.D. and its hash-maps are said to be
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faster than C. I remember this.
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** No Love for Machine Learning in 2005 :/
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- Write a Java program with an User Interface in my Post Ph. D. 1/2 of the work
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in the UI, the other half in the algorithm.
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** Still no love for ML in 2006 Find a job just to eat
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- Go find a job to eat, have a *lot* of time to learn new things
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- Discover HN, /r/programming, etc...
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- Web Applications are all the rage
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- DCVS is still a thing, people argue between git, mercurial, bazaar, etc...
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- Write a tremendous number of zsh scripts to handle a huge number of files, use Perl, etc...
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** First try at startup
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- Decide with a friend to make a product, choice of technology with them is _very_ hard.
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- git for example was a question
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- using FB connect instead of classical, name / password bullshit is refused
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because they still live technically in 2000
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- Design decisions are hard to make
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- Programming language, I heard good things about OCaML as the fastest high
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level language. Can't even talk about it.
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- A guy need technicians to make its product and is willing to pay.
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- OK good first thing to try ourselves.
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- The other guy know Ruby, so let's go with Ruby (no rails)
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- Write our own framework, many technical frictions, but in the end a PoC is
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made full ruby, deployed on heroku. The product is an end-to-end personal
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electrical power consumption system.
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- Guy explain, I want "real time"!!!! ???? WTFBBQ!! Real time is way harder than
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just drawing dashboards!!!!
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- Have performance problems! Start looking into other frameworks, stumble upon
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snap, an Haskell framework stating that it is _very_ fast.
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- Start looking further into Haskell from there.
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** Haskell learning
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- Learn Haskell from web programming perspective, the goal is not to _learn_
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Haskell but to _use_ Haskell to write as fast as possible a web application
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with batteries included. After trying a bit, I choose to use Yesod.
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- Lot of time lost due to Yesod difficulties to handle correct package version coherence!!!!
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- cabal freeze, etc... to the rescue, not perfect but ok, able to deploy on heroku
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- Learn Haskell in the process.
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