programming outside my comfort zone
Sample Go language inside Notepad++ editor, using Java syntax highlighting My experience with computer languages extends all the way back to APL ( A Programming Language ). I was exposed to it at the Fernbank Science Center in Atlanta in 1971. I got into APL for two reasons; the cool symbols across the top of the keyboard (a mechanical teletype) and the fact that I could play moon lander, one of the computer games written in APL that I later started to hack. For a high school junior who was growing up through Star Trek, 2001, and the Apollo program, learning APL on an IBM 360 mainframe was a dream come true. Since then I have continuously been programming in some language, from assembly on up, on some platform, from microprocessors on up, until today, and I don't see myself changing until I can no longer see a monitor, sometime in the unknowable future. For someone with such a very long period of software engineering in their lives, staying with any language or even a group...