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That wasn’t very nice, but it felt spot on. Curly braces are the chicken nuggets and fries of computer science, lol. Within about 18 months at university (80s

That wasn’t very nice, but it felt spot on. Curly braces are the chicken nuggets and fries of computer science, lol. Within about 18 months at university (80s), I learned BASIC, FORTRAN, Pascal and Lisp. Syntax, yeah, whatever. (We transitioned to C later, to my horror, with an eye towards a future using “C with classes”)

allover 7y ago
> Syntax, yeah, whatever. The vast majority of the programming world simply doesn't seem to agree.
- Roboprog 7y ago
  True. Don’t expect me to be happy about that, though. I’ll even upvote your comment, as it does matter a little. Too bad C is what “we” settled for.