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You have an extremely deep understanding of the discipline of computer programming for someone who has only just started to learn!
by tome 3y ago
You have an extremely deep understanding of the discipline of computer programming for someone who has only just started to learn!
- corinroyal 3y agoHow kind of you to say. I held off on learning programming for so long due to my visceral disgust with C/UNIX and ALGOL syntax. I just knew it was the wrong set of abstractions that have trapped us all in a grey hellscape of mediocrity and wasted potential. When I was a kid I turned turtles into a spirograph in Logo on an Apple II. It ruined me. I didn't know Logo was functional or Lisp-inspired. When I found functional programming in Erlang I got SO excited. When I found Common Lisp, decades of pent-up frustration melted away and I knew I'd come home. I guess my Unix Hating led to some intuitive thinking over the years and I've been making up for lost time over the past couple of years and mapping what I knew I wanted to what has been there in CL all along.