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From: eric@snark.thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Recovering from a first language
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Date: 10 Jan 91 18:31:54 GMT
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In <PH.91Jan9221002@ama-1.ama.caltech.edu> Paul Hardy wrote:
> In <1991Jan9.162436.2082@IDA.ORG> rlw@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.
-- 
      Eric S. Raymond = eric@snark.thyrsus.com  (mad mastermind of TMN-Netnews)