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What Was Your First Programming Language?
07-04-2015, 03:08 AM (This post was last modified: 07-04-2015 03:09 AM by BobVA.)
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RE: What Was Your First Programming Language?
(07-03-2015 10:15 PM)Don Shepherd Wrote:  When I first heard of the programming language Haskell, I thought it had to be a joke based on the Eddie Haskell character (who you just loved to hate) of Leave It To Beaver fame. But it turns out it has nothing to do with him.

I was expecting the compiler to generate messages like: "May I say your source code is looking particularly optimized today? Any compiler would certainly be fortunate to have a programmer gifted as as you writing for it."

I'm pretty sure I saw a chess program written in one line of APL. It was the ultimate quick hack language and still has features I miss (like effortless scalar / vector math).
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