[geeks] Go Apple....

Bill Bradford mrbill at mrbill.net
Sun Jul 28 21:34:10 CDT 2002


On Sun, Jul 28, 2002 at 10:19:49PM -0400, dave at cca.org wrote:
> Yes and no.
> I would argue that the concepts are different between the major
> branches of languages (the Algol family, the Lisp family, stack
> languages, and weirdo AI languages).
> Learning to program in C certainly makes picking up Fortran,
> Pascal, or Java easy, but it's not going to help you understand
> Scheme very much.

Okay, I was talking about "mainstream" stuff (Fortran, COBOL, Pascal,
C, stuff like Perl, PHP, etc).  None of those fancy-schmancy 
CS-major cult languages that Josh Boyd likes. 8-)

Bill

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