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ZX Spectrum BASIC - "PEEK" and "POKE" to write into graphics memory.
GW BASIC - Loved "BEEP" and "PLAY". Made first toy music program.
MS Quick Basic - No line numbers! Yay! (compared to GW BASIC)
Pascal - Blazingly fast compilation! (compared to just about anything else)
C - The warm feeling of being close to the metal.
C++ - Destructor evaluation upon stack unwind.
Haskell - Beautiful syntax. If you can compile your program, it'll probably run as you expect it to.
Scheme - Just me and my code play. Nothing comes in between. Not even the parens.
Smalltalk - Late binding - messages live separately from objects and classes.
Erlang - My first intro to message passing concurrency.
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ZX Spectrum BASIC - "PEEK" and "POKE" to write into graphics memory.
GW BASIC - Loved "BEEP" and "PLAY". Made first toy music program.
MS Quick Basic - No line numbers! Yay! (compared to GW BASIC)
Pascal - Blazingly fast compilation! (compared to just about anything else)
C - The warm feeling of being close to the metal.
C++ - Destructor evaluation upon stack unwind.
Haskell - Beautiful syntax. If you can compile your program, it'll probably run as you expect it to.
Scheme - Just me and my code play. Nothing comes in between. Not even the parens.
Smalltalk - Late binding - messages live separately from objects and classes.
Erlang - My first intro to message passing concurrency.