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That reminds me of my CS prof. He had been programming forever and said that one of the first languages he learned (Ada? Fortran? Can't Remember.) was a "two
by NoNotTheDuo 11y ago
That reminds me of my CS prof. He had been programming forever and said that one of the first languages he learned (Ada? Fortran? Can't Remember.) was a "two knee" language - meaning that you had to have a reference book open on each knee in order to write it!
- meuhnage 11y agoI guess you don't remember it because you consider it to be trivial and discard it as noise disturbing you from what you are focusing on (eg. algo).
- shoo 11y agoThat's a good term. Of the two, Fortran is relatively simple, while Ada has quite an expressive type system and built-in concurrency constructs, so I'd bet on it being Ada.
- jghn 11y agoI'd like to blame it somewhat in being a heavy polyglot but I was always like this