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Meanwhile I routinely use Lisp written before I was born (in 1986) that works out of the box in 2018. I’ve used Java packages (recently) from 1999. My company s
by emidln 9y ago
Meanwhile I routinely use Lisp written before I was born (in 1986) that works out of the box in 2018. I’ve used Java packages (recently) from 1999. My company still uses python/pypy 2.7 and we see no compelling reason to upgrade. If there is any sort of upgrade, it will be off of python.
- jmorrison 9y agoWhen, oh when will we ever finally unlearn "worse is better?" It's hard enough writing good code without having to fight your tooling (non-orthogonal, non-homoiconic, non-malleable, non-backwards-compatible languages, some with header files propagating changes upwards and breaking user code, and some with fascist type systems causing combinatorial explosions of containers and factories, ugh)