re: #32 thedopefishlives

The first language we learned at my college (and I don’t know if it’s still that way) was C++. Period. If you survived that, we branched out a little bit, but the core of our education was C++ with the occasional drop into C for when we did the Linux kernel module in our operating systems class. Granted, this was before .Net became big, but it was during Java’s heyday and we really didn’t do a lot with that. I’m kind of glad, in retrospect. C++ programming taught me to respect the pointer.

Boy I’m feeling old. First language was BASIC. Then 6800 ASM (no, not 68000, 8 bit 6800) then C or Pascal or something like that & then I finally found LISP and learned how much fun programming could really be. Picked up a little bit of lots of others since.

Much as I like Unix, I really wish Lisp had won. But Worse is Better…