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Oh wow, I learned a little Icon in college as part of a class on different programming paradigms. As soon as I saw the thread title I thought, "That sounds a lo
by pjungwir 3y ago
Oh wow, I learned a little Icon in college as part of a class on different programming paradigms. As soon as I saw the thread title I thought, "That sounds a lot like Icon."
We also covered Scheme, Prolog, and . . . Java. :-) Okay this was the 90s when OO was new, but still maybe they should have gone with something like Smalltalk.
- retrocryptid 3y agoOh man. Smalltalk has a huge learning curve. Of course, once you master a few dozen concepts you can just crank out the applications. I once was paid real money to develop in VA Smalltalk. It was a fun language. Dave Ungar and Dan Ingalls said a few things that made me think they planned at one point to add spitbol-esque features to Smalltalk. And Alan Kay once quipped something about wishing he had seen scheme before writing smalltalk grammar. For better or worse, bits of Smalltalk live on in Java and Ruby and bits of Scheme can be found in JavaScript if you look hard enough. Where did Icon and Spit/Sno-bol wind up? Alas.
- pjmlp 3y agoAlso Objective-C, although they could have done better than @ and[] all over the place. And .NET/C#, as Java nemesis :)