in reply to What languages to learn?
Taking that to more of an extreme, check out Intercal, a language whose whole charter is to do things differently than any other language. It was supposed to be a joke, but why do the concepts seem to be less than funny today? The way conditional execution is performed by turning off specific lines, rather than jumping over them, sounds a lot like Intel's new 64-bit chip. The way you can disable specific commands sounds a lot like "sandbox" security environments as seen both in Perl and Java. It goes on and on.
Read it and get a good laugh. But read deeper and see that the way we do things is really a very narrow, even provincial, viewpoint.
—John
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