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Having watched the video, read this post, and written serious amounts of non-trivial code in Javascript, PHP, SQL, C, Assembly, Perl, Regex, Java, C++, Python,

Having watched the video, read this post, and written serious amounts of non-trivial code in Javascript, PHP, SQL, C, Assembly, Perl, Regex, Java, C++, Python, C#, Ruby, and Scheme... I don't disagree. The "melancholy" hit especially hard.

type0 7y ago
> The "melancholy" hit especially hard. Romanticism of Lisp: how awesome it could have been if I were writing this on a modern Lisp machine.
- dleslie 7y ago
  I use Emacs in no small part because of elisp... Oh dear.
m3047 7y ago
I think romantically of MACRO-32 and the VAX silicon it ran on. (I have a CVAX2 chip pressed into a luggage tag somewhere around here...)
pdr2020 7y ago
I disagree on the Javascript count, specifically modern, statically typed Javascript. I might choose another language for perf characteristics that JS cannot match, but otherwise Javascript is a truly expressive lang right now.
- chx 7y ago
  Do you mean TypeScript / Flow / Dart or did some version of ECMAScript I am unaware of introduce a type system?
- deleted 7y ago
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