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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
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Date: 9 Feb 2025 07:54:30 GMT
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On Sat, 8 Feb 2025 23:36:12 -0500, WokieSux282@ud0s4.net wrote:

>    Maybe the best cross-over was Professor Wirth with Pascal/Modula.
>    Alas it was a shorter fence to straddle back then ....

Before it was adapted for the real world Pascal was known as a language 
that excelled at telling itself secrets. I/O was an afterthought. Lisp 
needed some improvement before it was useful too.

Didactic computer languages tend to emphasize concepts over utility. I 
spent a winter a long time ago working my way through the Wizard book 
which used Scheme. I found the concepts interesting but the back of my 
mind kept saying 'Why would you ever do it this way?'