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Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 22:39:45 -0700
From: Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org>
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glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:
> Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> wrote:
>> Lew wrote:
>> ...
>>> I started using the JLS very early in my Java career, and it has never 
>>> given me cause to regret that choice.
> 
>> I feel the same way, but that is irrelevant because of my prior
>> experience. Was the start of your Java career also the very first time
>> you had ever attempted to write a computer program?
> 
> I learned my first language, Fortran, from the IBM S/360 Fortran IV
> reference manual. Then again, I am probably not a typical case.

Also, I think that manual was considerably simpler and more accessible
than the JLS.

Patricia