[ale] On Programming and Programming Langauges

James Sumners james.sumners at gmail.com
Fri Sep 17 13:43:59 EDT 2010


+1

I'll just add a couple of things.

1) Every "programmer" needs the K&R book.
2) You left out Objective-C. It's C with awesomeness on top.

On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Michael B. Trausch <mike at trausch.us> wrote:
> Given the C# thread and the volumes of comments that I have there---both
> addressed and not, because of space---I thought I'd go ahead and just
> send an email out with all my thoughts.  Whether or not this turns into
> a thread that anyone has any interest in.  I do not expect that most
> will care to read this, it's _quite_ long.  Oh, well.  Take the rambling
> for what it is (or is not) worth.  :-)
> *snip*
>        --- Mike



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