Articles about Programming Languages by Seth Corker

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F#

Trying F# in Functional February 2023

Trying out F#, a functional language that's part of the .NET ecosystem. Here's what I thought, how it went in Functional February and what's next.

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Common Lisp

Trying Common Lisp in January 2023

Trying out Common Lisp, a programming language I've always wanted to learn about but have never had the time. Here's what I thought, how it went in January and what's next.

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The reason developers avoid CSS

Real developers don’t design and don’t use CSS

CSS has a stigma. As web developers we should embrace CSS and design as a whole.

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JavaScript is the English of programming

Ubiquity by circumstance

JavaScript is like English because it shares many traits that have helped shape it into what we know today.

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Language Features I Wish JavaScript Had

The wonders of guard and pattern matching

Elixir is a dynamic functional language with a couple of things I really enjoy using, pattern matching and guards are the coolest things I’ve seen.

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