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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.cringecollective.io/post/9716

Maybe some ALGOL 58 while we're at it too.

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[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I took a principles of programming languages course a while back and got to touch on a lot of these old languages. My professor had huge hard-on for Lisp. Don't get me wrong. The simplicity of the language is admirable. But reading and parsing that shit gave me headaches. No me gusta.

[–] cerement@slrpnk.net 6 points 5 months ago

I think I was the reverse, I found it easier wrapping my mind around Scheme than C …