Julia and The Reincarnation of Lisp
I have programmed exclusively in C for five years so far. I can say from experience, after one and ha lf years in C, I was beginning to understand pointers, malloc() and arrays of pointers to pointers of structs containing pointers. I really mean was beginning to understand, not an expert at all. In K&R2, the authors said that they feel after 10 years in C, they are still learning. They said the exact same thing while writing the first edition of the book. I struggled to think in C for first three years. The fifth year changed that. After five years, C felt so friendly, so easy. If someone told me a problem then C code came out from my hands like a reflex. I could solve problems in C which I never could, never did earlier. Imagine 10+10 more years in C, what it will make you: C Samson? I have, personally, written programs in many languages:
I could never use them professionally on a large scale. Just some toy programs here and there and sometimes bit bigger, like those of Practical Common Lisp, The Gigamonkeys Book. I loved Common Lisp but could never use it in the software industry.
