Lloyd’s Comments (group member since Apr 29, 2010)

Lloyd’s comments from the Software Engineering group.

Totally missed the poll. :P

Ruby: Heard of it, teach it in the SEIS752 class, don't use it extensively
Io: Never heard of it
Prolog: Heard of it, never programmed in it
Scala: Heard of it, never programmed in it
Erlang: Heard of it, never programmed in it
Closure: Heard of it, never programmed in it
Haskell: Heard of it, never programmed in it

I like the 5 questions that he asks on page 18.

What is the typing model?
What is the programming model?
How will you interact with it?
What are the decision constructs and core data structures?
What are the core features that make the language unique?

I introduce a lot of web languages in my class and have used a similar set of questions in order to talk about the "spirit" of a development environment. I think this is a good basis of questions to ask.