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Eugine_Nier comments on More intuitive programming languages - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 16 April 2012 05:09:41AM 2 points [-]

The three hurdles the article describes are variable assignment, recursion, and concurrency. I don't think you can program at all without those three elements.

Well, depending on what platform you're using, you don't necessarily need concurrency.