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I used to learn a lot of programming languages, just out of curiosity. It was something very fun to take have a new idea about a project Iād like to build, and use this as an opportunity to try a new language, a new setup, potentially a new paradigm. For instance, I learned Elixir this way, and I re...
Why don't programming languages or IDEs support attaching descriptive metadata to variables?
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Many earlier programming languages were non-free. TURBO Pascal, Visual Delphi, Visual Basic, Visual C++.<p>Many of today's popular programming languages are free. Java, C#, Python, OCaml, C, Rust.<p>Why aren't there more non-free, paid, programming languages today?
A glimpse into a new general purpose programming language under development at Microsoft
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Which first language is best for learning programming techniques?
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