I’ve decided to take a page out of Steven Proctor‘s book–well, blog actually. He has been doing Ruby Tuesday, a weekly series of posts on Ruby. Each week he examines a certain function in the language. He also publishes a counterpart series, Erlang Thursday, in which he does the same thing in—you guessed it—APL.
Kidding. It’s Erlang, of course.
The nice thing about these series is that Proctor examines the same or similar features in both languages. You get to see the application of a concept in Ruby, and then a couple of days later, the same concept in Erlang. It’s interesting to note the similarities and differences in the two languages.
In like fashion, I am beginning two series: F# Friday and Scala Saturday. I’ll probably borrow (i.e., steal blind) a number of Proctor’s ideas, that is, cover the same sort of functions he has. I thank Mr. Proctor for the idea and Mrs. Ezell, my middle school grammar teacher, for alliteration.