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> as many features as he could pack in Aiui there's some merit to the notion of The Lisp Curse[1] and he wanted to avoid it. Do you reject the notion of the cu
by raiph 10y ago
> as many features as he could pack in
Aiui there's some merit to the notion of The Lisp Curse[1] and he wanted to avoid it. Do you reject the notion of the curse, or think it doesn't apply to P6, or think he overdid it, or...?
Do you recall any specific features you felt went over the top?
[1] eg https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2450973 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2450973
- cestith 10y agoThere's also a bit of fear of The Forth Curse. For those not familiar, The Forth Curse is what happens when you make a language trivially easy to extend but don't write a large enough standard library of functions or procedures for it. Then your extensible language indeed gets easily extended at every site where it's used. The problem is that it's extended slightly differently in each place to do quite common things slightly differently and in wildly incompatible ways.
- segmondy 10y agoOh, I thought that was the Prolog curse.