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Strange Code
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Strange Code

by Ronald T. Kneusel
September 2022
Intermediate to advanced
496 pages
12h 32m
English
No Starch Press
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1A CHERRY-PICKED REVIEW OF PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES

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This book’s primary goal is to explore new ways to think about coding. Doing so will help you become a better coder, regardless of what language you are using. To that end, it makes sense to review existing programming languages, especially the languages that first introduced a particular coding paradigm or strongly influenced later languages.

The languages discussed in this chapter are not esolangs. Instead, they are serious approaches to the process of coding, meaning the process of translating thought into something a computer can use to solve a problem. Some of these languages are still in use. ...

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