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From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org>
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Subject: Re: How many of you have Ada programming careers?
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2015 00:39:43 -0600
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On 11/7/2015 8:44 PM, Nick Gordon wrote:
>Basically,
> it's 50% Java-mill/webdev mill, training us to be code monkeys, 40% academic
> CSci theory taught with Python, and 10% of all the other stuff.
>

When using Python, there are lots of self.x and self.y
and self.* all over the code. This makes the code
very ugly to read, since class own variables must be
references using self., I also found not have a closing
ENDIF and END LOOP, etc.. even if it was just "}" marker,
very confusing and made the code and the algorithms
actually harder to read for me. I kept looking for
a closing "}" and not finding it.

I really do not see what folks see in Python at all. But at
least it is not javascript.  When I did CS at school, we
used Pascal. Those were the good old days.
  
--Nasser

>>
>> That's a good starting list.  No functional languages tho.
>>
>
> In my own personal time I am very familiar with LISP. I use Emacs and I've
> done some tweaks customization to it, so I'm reasonably familiar with ELisp,
> and truly the first programming language I ever made useful code in was CLisp,
> so I have had a rather bizarre start I think. I don't personally enjoy Java
> because of the intense OOP concepts, but I concede they are the predominant
> programming/software engineering selling point now, so I know it.
>