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A comment on Using Clojure for Web Apps. Parent comment
Curly braces are the chicken nuggets and fries of computer science, lol.
Within about 18 months at university (80s), I learned BASIC, FORTRAN, Pascal and Lisp. Syntax, yeah, whatever.
(We transitioned to C later, to my horror, with an eye towards a future using “C with classes”)
The vast majority of the programming world simply doesn't seem to agree.
Don’t expect me to be happy about that, though.
I’ll even upvote your comment, as it does matter a little. Too bad C is what “we” settled for.
Curly braces are the chicken nuggets and fries of computer science, lol.
Within about 18 months at university (80s), I learned BASIC, FORTRAN, Pascal and Lisp. Syntax, yeah, whatever.
(We transitioned to C later, to my horror, with an eye towards a future using “C with classes”)