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Your argument is weak. Popularity of a language does not correlate well with the average knowledge of the users of the language. OCaml and Scheme are both very
by a-nikolaev 6y ago
Your argument is weak. Popularity of a language does not correlate well with the average knowledge of the users of the language.
OCaml and Scheme are both very old languages. The original dialect of OCaml (Robin Milner's ML) was created in 1973. Scheme was also created around the same time in the 1970s, and Lisp even earlier, so the technology I refer to is hardly a novelty from aether. Rather, the opposite is true, they are all older than Python, JS, and the derivatives of C.
People using these less popular languages are not blogging/posting a lot, spending more time writing code. Nevertheless, most online discussion is high-quality with high signal-to-noise ratio, much easier to learn new things, find good code and smart people.
- lispm 6y agoActually both ML and Scheme were at first implemented in Lisp.
- a-nikolaev 6y agoYeah