jonadab:

Yep--that explains it! You moved into the higher-level languages sooner than I did. My progression was more like: BASIC, Z-80 ASM, 8051 ASM, C, FORTRAN, COBOL, x86 ASM, C++, yadda yadda Perl. Mostly, I started banging hardware (Electrical Engineering major) and drifted over to the softer side...

Didn't really notice the fugly function names in C, as mostly I was ignoring them!

It's like the editing holy wars: When your fingers are programmed to like vi/emacs/WordStar/etc., it "feels natural" and you wonder why all those in the other camps are "just so stubborn and wrong!" And, of course, vice versa!

--roboticus (still wanting to find someone to pay him to learn Lisp!)

In reply to Re^2: YAC (Yet Another Challenge): Oldest Useful Computer Text by roboticus
in thread YAC (Yet Another Challenge): Oldest Useful Computer Text by hsmyers

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