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Journal by turgid
Which LISP should I learn? Years ago I read about Scheme and wrote some hello world level code. I learned about lambda functions and currying. I also looked at racket. A few years ago, much of my day job involved the JVM and I was getting sick of Java so I got a book on Clojure, which is a very nice language, but I never wrote any.
A few days ago I downloaded and built the latest version of DrRacket.
Should I go straight to Haskell? Or what about other functional languages? Is Erlang worth a look?
I need something stimulating to distract my brain from the mundane nature of everyday life, and mediocre programming languages.
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Hand me a pair of leather pants and a CASIO keyboard -- I'm living for today!
(Score: 2) by turgid on Wednesday December 01 2021, @10:25PM (1 child)
Ah, Spirograph! I once wrote a piece of QBASIC to do a Wankel engine.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday December 02 2021, @03:24PM
You would be amazed how many endless amusements you can have with turtle graphics. It becomes very simple to draw some cool line art.
Young people won't believe you if you say you used to get Netflix by US Postal Mail.