[Novalug] Weird and not normal (was g4 interfaces)

[William Sutton]

Had I started with my 3rd programming language, I'd be stuck with Ada 95 
right about now, and that's a fate I wouldn't wish on anyone except a Lisp 
programmer.... (Apple Basic, C, Ada, C++, Perl, x86 assembler, Lisp, 
Scheme, JavaScript, PL/SQL, in that order).

strangely enough, I'm a professional Perl programmer....

William Sutton


On Fri, 27 Feb 2009, Clif Flynt wrote:

> Lots of stuff falls into the 'not right' category if you've
> started with something else first.
>
> Potatoes, rice and poi are all white starches with little flavor.
>
> Depending on where you grew up, one of these will be hard for an
> adult to swallow.
>
> Various spices in your food come on this one.
>
> Steering wheel on right or left, driving on right or left.
>
> QWERTY or Dvorak.
>
> One of my three-liners about programming languages is that
> the first language you learn is strange and unwieldy.  The
> second is just plain wrong.  And the third is just like all
> the others.
>
>  For instance, your first language might have a for loop,
> which is strange and never what you want.  The second has a 'do'
> loop which is wrong and doesn't have the syntax you're used to.
> The third one has a some sort of an iterative looping structure,
> and by then you've gotten used to the idea that all languages
> have an iterative loop of some sort.
>
>  So nobody should learn a first programming language.  They
> should start with the third, when it's easier.
>
>  Clif
>
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