When I started studying CS in Hamburg, Germany, in the early 90's, they taught us Miranda to have everyone on the same level. Which was not such a bad idea: I

When I started studying CS in Hamburg, Germany, in the early 90's, they taught us Miranda to have everyone on the same level. Which was not such a bad idea: I had three years of C & five of C++ under my belt already at the time but never touched a functional programming language. Very few co-students had worked with Lisp and they did have an advantage. But they still had to new learn a new language. Trivia 1: I was going out with a German-Iranian girl who's name was Miranda, at the same time. Trivia 2: As I was also studying graphics design with an emphasis on typography then I made her a t-shirt for her b-day that used the 'Mirinda'[1] logo but turned it into 'Miranda'. She never wore it which hurt me a bit at the time. Maybe I should dig that out and donate it as the logo for that language since theirs is an absolute eyesaw? :] [1] Mirinda is a carbonated soft drink (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirinda https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirinda) The logo in the 90's looked different -- like this: http://tiny.cc/24rnkz http://tiny.cc/24rnkz