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Re: On Lisp: Happy 20th Birthday by copiga on Sunday September 08, 2013 @03:40PM (#6349973)
that may be due to where they learned, I am doing a HND in computer science and we are learning C# and nothing else...

before i began i knew (well enough to make use of) C, vala and a small amount of lisp and PHP

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Re: On Lisp: Happy 20th Birthday by vukmir on Sunday September 08, 2013 @03:47PM (#6350006)
Sorry, I wasn't clear enough. The guy didn't know that such things such as open source, git, Ruby, Python, Perl,... even existed. I find it impossible to browse the web and not to run into them, but it seems to be quite possible.
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Re: On Lisp: Happy 20th Birthday by copiga on Sunday September 08, 2013 @03:57PM (#6350040)
most people on my course are like that. at the start about 90% didnt know what a programming language is and about 50% didnt know what WYSIWYG stands for...
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