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Enchilada Programming Language
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- drallison 16y agoCrashes Firefox, displays in Chrome.
- drakep 16y agoWorks in 4...
- drakep 16y agoReading this I see the corn tortilla rolled around a filling, but where is the chili pepper sauce? What makes this language live up to it's spicy namesake.
- j_baker 16y agoSomehow, I don't think this name will help the language's popularity... boss: "What language are you going to do this in?" me: "enchilada" Something about that just isn't right.
- sjs 16y agoIt's long, but how is it any worse than PHP, C, D, Fortran, Cobol, ... ?
- armandososa 16y agoI actually loved the name, didn't care much about the language itself.
- swannodette 16y agoThe list of links in the Acknowledgements is great.
- dmoney 16y agoThe storage service described in the Rationale section looks like it's using something like what Git does: stores a part of a file only once, and uses references to it thereafter if another file uses the same segment. I don't see why you would need Enchilada if you could just use a Git's libraries from another programming language though. That's what Bup does: https://github.com/apenwarr/bup https://github.com/apenwarr/bup
- skymt 16y agoClojure's persistent data structures use the same technique as Enchilada. http://clojure.org/functional_programming#Functional%20Programming--Immutable%20Data%20Structures http://clojure.org/functional_programming#Functional%20Progr...
- jamesjyu 16y ago"Green Computing: mutating lesser bits generates lesser heat." I call BS. Can someone actually prove to me that using this language would actually non-trivially reduce power consumption?