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   洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee) (hongminhee@todon.eu)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Dec-2023 15:59:53 JST 洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee)

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   • Martijn Faassen

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   • QBasic: learned from my father
   • Visual Basic: learned from my father
   • Perl: wanted a guestbook on my website (via CGI)
   • PHP: wanted a guestbook on my homepage, many hosting services
   • JavaScript: wanted to make stars follow the mouse cursor
   • C#: much better Visual Basic (with WinForms)
   • Python: batteries included, installed everywhere (except Windows)
   • Haskell: robust against mistakes, amazing type-level features
   • TypeScript: weird but amazing type-level features, Deno has made it as convenient as Python

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     Martijn Faassen (faassen@fosstodon.org)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Dec-2023 15:59:54 JST Martijn Faassen

     My motivations in picking a #programming language have shifted over the years:

     BASIC - it was there
     Assembly - fast
     C - fast
     C++ - abstraction (oop), fast
     Python - easy, dynamic, abstraction (oop)
     JS - only game in town on fe
     TS - avoid bugs early (object is not a function)
     Rust - fast, avoid bugs early, abstraction

     What were your motivations?