eric@snark.thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond) (01/11/91)
In <PH.91Jan9221002@ama-1.ama.caltech.edu> Paul Hardy wrote: > In <1991Jan9.162436.2082@IDA.ORG> rlw@IDA.ORG (Richard Wexelblat) writes: > > I do not believe it possible to "recover" from one's first programming > > language. > > Myfirstlanguage<-APLonanIBM-1130,andsincethenI'veperfectlyrecovered.--Paul I, too, `recovered' from APL as a first language -- by learning LISP. There's a lesson here: it's only possible by driving the first language out with one that asserts an even more tenacious hold on one's modelling processes. Ten years, including seven years of C programming later, I still think in LISP a lot of the time. -- Eric S. Raymond = eric@snark.thyrsus.com (mad mastermind of TMN-Netnews)