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Re:COBOL Leads Us Back to the Future (2015) by vezzy-fnord on Wednesday July 15, 2015 @11:58AM (#9892020)
Computing actually has a very chaotic evolution compared to other fields. Where most can be seen as linear progressions, computing is heavily prone to stasis and regressions.

Revisiting ancestral ground in programming actually makes you think how little we've come, not how far.

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Re:COBOL Leads Us Back to the Future (2015) by muraiki on Wednesday July 15, 2015 @12:11PM (#9892114)
Although my self-teaching of programming began in Python it ended up veering through Racket and Smalltalk. I almost regret learning Smalltalk after experiencing what a joy it is to program in. Writing a webapp in Seaside, with all of its great features for live inspection and debugging, and then experiencing Django and Node was an eye opener.
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