Exploring Programming Languages: Haskell, Common Lisp, and Smalltalk
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todsacerdoti
If you only eat one bagel today, this is the bagel.
Summary
The article discusses a programming contest program created to assist with job interviews at the NRAO. The author implemented the program in Haskell, Common Lisp, and Smalltalk, deviating from the required Java language. The purpose was to learn and explore different programming languages.
Key quotes
· 2 pulledCandidates are required to write this in Java, but that restriction does not apply to me, so I of course had to write it in three languages that are not Java: Haskell, Common Lisp and Smalltalk.
I expect to learn something, or at least reinforce an existing fact, by doing these sorts of language games, but
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