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Re^3: Perl as one's first programming language

by apl (Monsignor)
on Apr 07, 2008 at 19:52 UTC ( [id://678819]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^2: Perl as one's first programming language
in thread Perl as one's first programming language

You're displaying what many people call the "Lisp Programmer's Disease" (where) recursion is better than iteration
I had a C.S. professor who wanted the class to implement a Lisp interpreter as an exercise; I assume he hoped most people lwould implement Lisp in Lisp. I did it in Fortran.

His head almost exploded when I told him what I had done... 8-)

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