Re: APL\360

[Paul Koning via cctalk]

> On Jan 15, 2021, at 7:33 PM, Norman Jaffe via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> 
> wrote:
> 
> I have found that the ideal combination of languages to learn early are APL, 
> Simula, LISP and Smalltalk. 
> I was lucky enough to have started programming when that was possible. 

Interesting.

My first was ALGOL 60.

One measure I've used is that, out of 40 or so languages I know, with only two 
have I gone from "no knowledge" to "able to write a substantial program" in one 
week.  One was Pascal (in university -- computer course code generator).  The 
other was Python (about 15 years ago, a substantial enhancement to cvs2svn).

        paul