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Re: The One-language-per-year Challenge

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Originally Posted by techhelpbb View Post
I have found that nothing makes a programmer learn the value of a QWERTY keyboard faster than a wire-wrap tool
Going to guess that less than 50 of us know what that is or have used one.

And CMOS? Really TTL isn't good enough for you?

Finally, one of my early jobs at the University was to help maintain the computer billing system that was written in APL. Clearly a write once read never language.

My programming language arc is Fortran, COBOL, MAD, ALGOL (and variants like ESPOL), APL, TECO (ask anyone, its a programming language wrapped in an editor), Assembler (oh PDP8 Assembler how I loved thee) , BASIC (and variants like Visual Basic), Pascal, C and (C++), Lisp, AWK, ICON, Forth, XLISP, TADS, Bob, Logo, Pilot, Smalltalk, TCL, Java, Javascript, Python, Ruby, Processing, Labview and Lua.

I'm working on English, hope to master that soon.
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