[wplug] vaguely linux related
Matthew Danish
mdanish at andrew.cmu.edu
Wed Apr 2 18:45:05 EST 2003
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 06:29:15PM -0500, Ryan Kaulakis wrote:
> With all the talk about programming languages flying about, I thought
> that now would be a good time for me to ask this: I am thinking of
> learning another programming language (currently a novice at C/C++,
> Perl, and--sadly--Visual Basic). Does any one have any suggestions for
> what language I should learn?
>
> Just incase you'd like to know, I'm looking for a language that is a
> bit less clunky than C (because I just *love* bounds checking arrays
> the hard way), but will also let me try interesting things without
> having seizures (C hates it when I try to implement LISP's bignum
> datatype).
Well then, forget C and learn Common Lisp ;-). Then you won't have to
implement the bignum datatype. And you get to do all sorts of
interesting things.
http://www.cliki.net/
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