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Erik Burger is a .NET Consultant at Antares Informatisering, an outsourcing company based in The Netherlands. He refuses to specialise in a single programming language as a matter of principle, believing that being multi-disciplinary makes him a better developer. He's a strong advocate of Pragmatic Programming and a newbie enthusiast in Ruby and Rails.

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Archive for the 'Programming Languages' Category



I have been advertising Ruby and IronRuby at my company for a while now — or trying too. We are a .NET solution provider and sofar they’re not convinced that Ruby will be worth the effort of learning. Oh well. One of these days I will come up with the decisive argument.
Thinking of that, maybe [...]

IronLisp/Scheme!

I discovered that there is an (in development) implementation of the Lisp/Scheme language for the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR). Pretty cool. I very much enjoyed the Lisp courses I followed at uni. The language looks worse than Perl but is actually quite simple once you get your head around it. As one of the primare [...]