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Usability in programming language concept implementations

Why does it feel easier and more joyful to write in one programming language than another? Most of the work is coming up with the algorithm, without considering language. Then translating that to a programming language is not usually the biggest problem (unless doing it in J 😉). Puzzling out how to make it work in PostScript (or J) can even be a reward in itself. But then there are those times when you just want to get an answer. Prequel As usual I have been doing adventofcode both because it is fun and it is an opportunity to use my Tailspin programming language . I also take the opportunity to try out a new language (or several) and as the mood takes me I might use an old favourite. In 2017 I wanted to improve my javascript and also ended up learning SequenceL, in 2018 I wanted to see how SQL could work for programming and also started designing Tailspin as "how would I want to write this code", in 2019 I had just developed Tailspin so that was it, in 2020 I wanted to

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