I learned # Pascal in the 80s. I learned a bit C and Rust and hated that pointer logic which is extremely…

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A programmer shared their experience learning various programming languages, finding Pascal's array handling superior for matrix operations compared to C and Rust. They noted that libraries like NumPy are often written in Assembly based on Fortran algorithms, not C. The user attempted to create a new language by bootstrapping Fortran with assistance from Claude 4 but ultimately decided to switch back to Pascal for its array capabilities. AI

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I learned # Pascal in the 80s. I learned a bit C and Rust and hated that pointer logic which is extremely…

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I learned # Pascal in the 80s. I learned a bit C and Rust and hated that pointer logic which is extremely clumsy for matrix manipulation. # Python and # C users

I learned # Pascal in the 80s. I learned a bit C and Rust and hated that pointer logic which is extremely clumsy for matrix manipulation. # Python and # C users almost never knew that things like # Numpy were written in # Assembly based on algorithms originally written in # Fortr…

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I learned # Pascal in the 80s. I learned a bit C and Rust and hated that pointer logic which is extremely clumsy for matrix manipulation. # Python and # C users

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