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From: g4bomber@cdf.toronto.edu (Bailin Jeremy)
Subject: Re: Why do people like C? (Was: Comparison: Beta - Lisp)
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Date: Fri, 23 Sep 1994 19:39:11 GMT
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I've noticed that it seems that the old paradigm of learning vocal languages
(English, French, Japanese etc) seems to be equally valid with programming
languages, ironically enough. Basically, learn as many different ones as
possible while you're still young. <grin> People have difficulty moving from
one type of language paradigm (say C) to a very different one (say Lisp),
whereas both can be learned quite well early on.
On the other hand... Every now and then I look back at my old Basic code...
and shudder. :-)=


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