Languages learned first

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From: Garry Wiegand
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1987 18:43

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In a recent article sommar@enea.UUCP (Erland Sommarskog) wrote:
>                       ... What Wirth and no one else probably didn't
>realize is that the language you learn first is the one you know best and
>the one you prefer...

You gotta be kidding!!!   PDP-11 assembler?  TRS-80 Basic??

For me it was the language I learned 4th that I like best (and 
unfortunately no longer have a compiler for) - dear old Simula. Learning
Fortran as #1 just allowed me to appreciate the beauty of the world
better when I later encountered structured languages.

Though I still use Fortran when I need to do a quickie (and don't want to
bother typing in all those declarations :-)

garry wiegand   (garry%cadif-oak@cu-arpa.cs.cornell.edu)

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