On 17/09/2015 05:41 PM, "Jörg \"Yadgar\" Bleimann" wrote:

If programming languages were organs... then I would be seriously 
amazing at playing organs? :-D

> 6502 Assembler: a Dr. Böhm Benjamin kit, you can do hardly anything
> serious with it, but it's a lot of fun and perhaps inspires you to try
> something more sophisticated afterwards, such as a CnT/L...

What, you haven't tried Motorola 68000 assembly?

(I still can't figure out why nobody else designed their processors like 
this. You know, *logical*.)

> COBOL: a Mighty Wurlitzer Theater Organ! Not really electronic, but at
> that time, even computers were hardly...

What, no LISP?

> C#: a Wersi OAS model, essentially a PC running Windows XP with some
> organ built around it. Pretends to be a Hammond B-3 but never will be -
> and preferably crashes in the midst of a recital!

C# is about level with Java; it depends what implementation you're 
running it on.

> Forth: a weird Polish-made organ for left-handed players. Rumours has it
> that Karlheinz Stockhausen owned one.

What, no Haskell?

(Then again, if C# is a Wersi OAS and COBOL is a Wurlitzer, then I guess 
that makes Haskell some sort of pneumatic keytar...)

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