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And the flaw with your perspective is that if we all followed this advice, we might have a few highly polished bullet proof C libraries to use, but we'd still b
by pythonaut_16 8y ago
And the flaw with your perspective is that if we all followed this advice, we might have a few highly polished bullet proof C libraries to use, but we'd still be stuck writing C and following all of its paradigms.
- jfoster 8y agoThat's the interesting part. We're better off because of some but not all new languages having been invented.
- runevault 8y agoSure, but you have to have the bad attempts to learn things that don't work or we won't end up with the good ones. We fall into a local maximum instead of exploring farther and potentially going higher. Every dead end is another bit of the map explored when it comes to creating expressive languages. Now, is there an argument we'd be better off doing that exploration in a space designed to make DSLs easier than in building entirely new languages? That I dunno but it is worth considering.
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