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Re: Survey: What led you to functional programming?         

Group: comp.lang.functional · Group Profile
Author: Aaron W. Hsu
Date: Sep 19, 2008 08:04

Benjamin L. Russell Yahoo.com> writes:
>A) Your chronological evolution in programming languages; e.g. (in my
>case):

QBASIC (1999) -> Scheme

I learned other languages (C, Perl, PHP, JavaScript) when it benefited
me, but I wouldn't consider that an evolution.
>B) Relevant comments:

I learned Scheme because QBASIC limited my ability to program with deep
recursion, and I wanted something interesting. It was recommended that I
try Lisp, so I found Scheme, and haven't looked back.

Aaron Hsu
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