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		charcircuit on Dec 10, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Haskell, Ada, C++, Awk: An Experiment in Prototypi... The small sample size and age of the experiment makes it not very relevant to today.

nerdponx on Dec 11, 2022 [–]

It's interesting to think about how this was a selection of the best languages available at the time. Python and Java were brand new!

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