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That sounds fun! Lisp is great for that because of its code-as-data principle (I use clojure in my day job and it makes dealing with structured data like JSON an absolute breeze). Did you go to an advanced school or something?


well, i started coding in 1st grade (logo, then basic) but this was a summer program hosted by Johns Hopkins. It was highly theoretical - we learned about DFAs, NFAs, epsilon-NFAs, and turing machines.


Wow, I had completely forgotten about writing that interpreter for the PURPLE language [1] in that class. Thanks for the memories!

[1] http://www.mattababy.org/~belmonte/Teaching/CS1/PURPLE_proje...


Were you in that class with me? drop a line. Would love to hear from someone else in that class!


Did you take the class in Los Angeles in 1997?


Awesome! I started in the 5th grade with Perl (lol) and went to a bunch of summer programs but they were more hands-on and programming based. Very cool. I learned about state machines when I was 16 and would draw my own really complicated ones for fun haha.




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