[FRIAM] Abducktion

[Barry MacKichan]

Very much so. We hired a grad student a long time ago (he stayed with us 
until he retired). He wrote great Pascal programs. He wrote great Pascal 
programs in C++, and in JavaScript. The effect of your first programming 
language on style, idioms, and your feelings about recursion and 
encapsulation.

—Barry

On 6 Aug 2020, at 23:24, thompnickson2 at gmail.com wrote:

> Nah.  He means more than that.  Even ordinary languages predispose 
> users to one kind of discourse or another.  I assume that programming 
> languages do the same. 
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