Programming Languages I Have Known and Loved (and Hated)

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Share Post Share reddit I ran into a polyglot the other day who asked me how many languages I knew.  I flashed back to a moment circa 1977 when I was a young kid in a summer program to learn about computers.  We were sitting at terminals and someone asked a hacker (in...