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From: mjs@hpfcso.HP.COM (Marc Sabatella)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Learning other languages (Was: Fortran vs. C for numerical work)
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Date: 4 Dec 90 16:49:54 GMT
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>(Learning Forth, on
>the other hand, gave me some *really* nasty programming
>habits for a period of time, but I'm over that now :-)

On the contrary, it taught me the value of documenting even the most trivial of
operations, for fear of forgetting what I meant by "drop over dup dup".  It
also taught me how to be conservative with function arguments, to avoid
excessive copying of stack items.

Cobol; now *there's* a language I got nothing useful out of.


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