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What is the best Functional Programming Language for Experienced OO Developers?

I'm a very experienced Object Oriented developer. Which of the Functional Programming languages would be the best one for getting my feet wet? Keeping in mind: IDE Compiler Maturity Debugging Tools Which Functional Programming language would you recommend? ...

Absolute beginning in programming

I have worked for the last 10 years in Networking & Web Development and always had an interest in programming. When I was in School I started in Basic, (To date myself) the other languages at that time were Cobol & Fortran, Where should I start in 2009? is C+ or C++ a good place? Is it better to Start Java or .net? I'm in need of some di...

Getting started with Java using Eclipse

I just heard of library for reading/writing excel files without COM, so I figured I'd go check it out. I downloaded jexcelapi_2_6_12.zip from this page http://sourceforge.net/projects/jexcelapi/files/ but I have no idea how to open it in Eclipse. I know it's a silly question, but I'm sure it's not the first time someone's asked it, how...

iPhone first time application ran and config files

Hello. I have two question: I'm developing an iPhone application and I want to know when it is the first time the application is executed. I want to check some extended permissions from facebook the first time. How can I know that? (first question) Another way to solved this problem is to store the extended permissions granted in s...

Data not displayed first time in android after copying the file from assets to data folder

Description I have used the code tip from http://www.reigndesign.com/blog/using-your-own-sqlite-database-in-android-applications/ to copy a pre-filled data file to the target and handled this in a asynch task Problem : On starting the application it gives error and shuts down first time, starting again without any change it works perf...

How to approach a function that has slightly different behavior when called the first time?

This is a very general programming question that I just want to put out there and see if anyone has any thoughts on it. It shows up time and time again: I have a function somefunction() which is called a lot, but the very first time its called I want it to behave just a bit differently. Here's an example: first_time = true; somefunction...