[Sussex] Code-writing methods

[Geoff Teale]

On Friday 17 November 2006 12:40, Colin Tuckley wrote:
> Cor! Someone else who used FORTRAN II, I used it while still at school, we
> used to cycle to Cambridge University Eng Labs once a week with our
> papertapes to run stuff on their IBM 1130.

I've programmed in FORTRAN, though never out of choice.  

I do however regularly write code in various forms of LISP - a language family 
that's been with us since the late 50's and is *still* more capable and 
massively more elegant than anything else out there.  

Indeed I look on the LISP family of languages as being so ahead of their time 
that the ideas contained in them are only *now* becoming fashionable.  
Python, Ruby and Javascript are all moving into the field of metaprogramming 
slowly.

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