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Classical, Functional or Prototypal?

I have updated the maths playground on this site as part of an ongoing adoption and learning of new languages and in particular, programming approaches. The language itself is not really the issue when you’re tackling a task. In fact, learning a ‘programming language’ itself (the syntax that is) is a non-issue. What you do come up against is, is a mindset.

Taking the “classical” languages like C, C++, C# and Java as examples, the way you code in each is roughly the same. Different semantics, but a lot of variable commonality. (Of course, you can get frameworks, like the Symbian SDK, which obsfucate things enough for you to appear as another language). Then you take something like Ruby, and the way you think _has_ to change, or you’re just going to hit your head against the proverbial. And then still, something quite different like Javascript (in it’s more modern form).

Having been schooled in more classical approaches (C, C++), the jump to functional programming was an interesting curve. And now, another shift to prototypal programming has been as interesting. Still some concepts make me ponder though. Nonetheless, i’ve documented the differences, in the form of code, between the pseudo-classical and prototypal approaches in using Javascript.

Any pointers welcome, thanks 🙂