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   Cat Hicks (grimalkina@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 25-Apr-2024 11:22:42 JST Cat Hicks

   I want to see absolutely no sensible and practical advice here. What programming language should I start vaguely and in a chill way teaching myself if I just want to experience something fun or elegant or interesting in and of itself, assuming I have no goal for using it to do anything really (outside of learning)

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     powersoffour (powersoffour@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 25-Apr-2024 11:22:41 JST powersoffour

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     @grimalkina maybe lua? On tic-80?

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 25-Apr-2024 12:21:16 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @grimalkina I really like Beta.

     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BETA_(programming_language)

     There's a good book by the authors.

     https://www.amazon.ca/Object-Oriented-Programming-Beta-Language/dp/0201624303

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 25-Apr-2024 12:22:04 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • RDN

     @rdnielsen @grimalkina Seconded

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     RDN (rdnielsen@floss.social)'s status on Thursday, 25-Apr-2024 12:22:05 JST RDN

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     @grimalkina
     Forth

     Leo Brodie's book 'Thinking Forth' is one of the all-time best books for learning programming.

     #Programming #Forth

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 25-Apr-2024 12:28:55 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @grimalkina Last thing: The Strange Loop Conference covers all kinds of next-generation, experimental programming languages. It's cool. You could do worse than to look through the previous year's sessions and just find one that tickles your fancy.

     https://www.thestrangeloop.com/

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     Rimu (rimu@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Thursday, 25-Apr-2024 19:16:16 JST Rimu

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     @grimalkina A lot of games embed Lua. I'm sure there are some fun environments mess around in with that.

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     esmevane, sorry (ironchamber@mastodon.esmevane.com)'s status on Thursday, 25-Apr-2024 23:12:46 JST esmevane, sorry

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     @grimalkina has anyone suggested the “7 languages in 7 weeks” thing to you? Languages start to blend once you play with some major categories. Like, not exhaustive, but picking one language for each of these topics can be really fun:

     Compiled
     Scripted
     Object based
     Functional
     Lisps
     Dynamic
     Typed

     It’s just cool to see the way they all start to overlap and relate to each other. The tooling is usually the biggest difference, after a while.