In <···············@ama-1.ama.caltech.edu> Paul Hardy wrote:
> In <····················@IDA.ORG> ···@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.
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Eric S. Raymond = ····@snark.thyrsus.com (mad mastermind of TMN-Netnews)