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> Why did it take us so long to recognise this? It didn't take us long. Schemers did multiple dispatch at least 40 years ago. SICP explains how to do it. (A
by 08-15 6y ago
> Why did it take us so long to recognise this?
It didn't take us long. Schemers did multiple dispatch at least 40 years ago. SICP explains how to do it.
(Arguably, both R and Julia are Lisp dialects under the hood, just disguised behind a more arcane syntax. Which goes to show that 'practioners' take Lisp seriously exactly as long as they don't know it's Lisp.)
- FridgeSeal 6y agoToo many programmers (in my opinion) give up far too early due to surface level syntactical differences. I have a friend who is like this, looked at some Rust code, saw closures with bars instead of parentheses and practically disregarded it on the spot. Took a lot of convincing that they wouldn’t notice after 15 minutes of actually using the language, and what do you know, I was right.