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Before Haskell, there was the Orwell programming language [pdf]
- ggm 1y agoI am brought to remember that all these language introductions by REPL are great for single expressions, and once its more than about 8 lines of input the tedium sets in fast. Cut paste made it much simpler, but of course the typing was reinforced learning. Thus, fools rush in.. C you were driven to edit-save-compile-run and a different kind of tedium set in (syntax fuckups, mis-hits, command delay, do I printf() debug or do I now learn how to use adb/gdb...