[ale] Programming and preferred languages?

[Charles Shapiro]

Heh.  Google has just published its SRE manual for free. That might be
relevant to this discussion.. (
https://landing.google.com/sre/book/chapters/introduction.html )

-- CHS


On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 9:20 AM, Chris Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com>
wrote:

> I love SQLite. Use thay sh at t everywhere. My JSON has expanded too. I use
> it now for package data and am moving configs from an INI format to JSON.
>
> IoT likes JSON so using it there I grew to like it over my old standby of
> XML. Going between JSON and hashes in Perl is a breeze. I also started
> using it as program output when the java developers call one of my
> programs. Easier for them than parsing strings on STDOUT. Instead, I print
> the JSON on STDOUT.
>
>
>
> On February 3, 2017 4:43:41 AM EST, Leam Hall <leamhall at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Last night's fun was mostly turning working local code into a package.
>> Kludges to the left of me, relative dirs to the right, and here I am...
>>
>> It was fun to face the challenge. It was less fun to again get the "you
>> should upgrade" thing on IRC. Few IRC Rubyists seem to care that
>> upgrades take time and planning on large server farms, and if I'm not
>> giving much in value then there's no ROI on the upgrade.
>>
>> http://blog.reuel.net/2016/08/using-ruby-187-for-fun-and-uh-fun.html
>>
>> Sorry, having some whine with the morning coffee. What was cool was
>> reading the language code to get better clues as to why my code was
>> failing, fixing those issues, and then starting to fix new issues raised
>> by package installation.
>>
>> Part of the challenge is getting larger projects in my portfolio. Since
>> my day job isn't coding I'm working after hours on things that please
>> me. That pleasure, like last night, helps push past the "dang, it failed
>> again".
>>
>> Of course, the idea crosses the mind to put my code's data into portable
>> formats like json and sqlite, and then write basic ports into different
>> languages. I already have some Go code doing that.
>>
>> Also, yesterday wasn't a great day. Reading your wisdom really helped me
>> keep a good attitude at work. Thank you very much!
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