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0 pointsprotomyth12y ago0 comments

Postscript was around my 9th language[1] and I find Factor pretty easy to read. I might be a special case as I hate reading Python and every time I try an S-expr language I really never get the hang of it.

Thinking about Python, looks wise it is kind of the opposite of any of the stack languages. I get the feeling that you can like one or the other.

1) various 8-bit BASICs, 6502 ASM, Modula-2, 370 ASM, C, Ada, foxbase, SQL, Postscript, Forth, Objective-C (weird listing it out)

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rayiner12y ago

I started with C++ and thought I was just good at picking up languages because I picked up Java and Python in a day or two. Then I realized it was because they were so similar. When I learned Common Lisp I had to do some real work even though ny then I had been programming for 7-8 years.

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0 pointsprotomyth12y ago0 comments

Thinking about Python, looks wise it is kind of the opposite of any of the stack languages. I get the feeling that you can like one or the other.

1) various 8-bit BASICs, 6502 ASM, Modula-2, 370 ASM, C, Ada, foxbase, SQL, Postscript, Forth, Objective-C (weird listing it out)

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rayiner12y ago

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