Seven More Languages in Seven Weeks

Chapter 8Wrapping Up

by Bruce Tate

Hopefully, you’ve made it through another seven languages in seven weeks. In the foreword, José Valim compared walking through these seven languages to the beginning of your own journey. This particular trip has taken you through diverse programming models, including Factor’s concatenative style, Elm’s reactive programming, Lua’s prototypes, miniKanren’s combination of logic and functional techniques, and various takes on functional programming.

Some will try to tell you that this journey is worthless, that you can’t truly learn a language in seven days any more than you can learn Italian by eating at the Olive Garden once a week. If you’ve worked through these exercises, you know different. Traveling for ...