From: dave at horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [COFF] What languges would you like to learn?
Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2019 07:27:28 +1100 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.1912250725100.89651@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c47be9b7-e519-f762-5544-bda5a7f10d36@gmail.com>
On Mon, 23 Dec 2019, Nemo Nusquam wrote:
> A recent thread makes me wonder which languages would people like to
> learn? (I confess to trying, as Dave does, but time prevents anything
> more that learing syntax and writing toy programmes. One must write
> something substantial -- not synonomous with large -- to really learn a
> language.)
Well, being retired I'm no longer compelled to write programs; I just do
it as a hobby, like people collect stamps :-)
> Erlang, Smalltalk, Prolog, Haskell, and Scheme come to mind...
I might get around to them...
-- Dave
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2019-12-23 23:27 cym224
2019-12-24 9:54 ` thomas.paulsen
2019-12-24 16:28 ` toby
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2019-12-24 18:04 ` lm
2019-12-25 3:34 ` dave
2019-12-25 16:02 ` cym224
2019-12-25 17:05 ` thomas.paulsen
2019-12-24 20:27 ` dave [this message]
2019-12-25 17:31 ` rtomek
2019-12-25 19:13 ` athornton
2019-12-26 0:23 ` me
2019-12-26 1:54 ` wobblygong
2019-12-26 3:44 ` dave
2019-12-26 4:00 ` lm
2019-12-26 5:43 ` wobblygong
2019-12-26 11:49 ` tih
2019-12-26 15:33 ` lm
2019-12-26 16:34 ` thomas.paulsen
2019-12-26 16:53 ` lm
2019-12-27 3:00 ` dave
2019-12-27 7:02 ` thomas.paulsen
2019-12-26 17:57 ` bakul
2019-12-26 21:28 ` davida
2019-12-26 21:37 ` lm
2019-12-26 21:57 ` sauer
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2019-12-27 3:41 ` bakul
2019-12-27 4:00 ` lm
2019-12-27 4:28 ` bakul
2019-12-26 22:16 ` imp
2019-12-27 3:41 ` bakul
2019-12-26 15:43 ` dfawcus+lists-coff
2019-12-27 17:46 ` cym224
2019-12-27 21:33 ` tih
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