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> It's exactly like learning scheme. Seriously who fucking cares about scheme? Err... This website is written in Arc (a cousin of Scheme), which itself is impl
by BrandonM 15y ago
> It's exactly like learning scheme. Seriously who fucking cares about scheme?
Err... This website is written in Arc (a cousin of Scheme), which itself is implemented in MzScheme. So by extension, you care about scheme, and so does everyone else here.
- baby 15y agoI think this website has a pretty poor UI. And it's PHP also.
- dangrossman 15y ago> And it's PHP also. I have never heard that before. What part is PHP?
- baby 15y agowoops, I talked too fast.
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- BrandonM 15y agoI think people are more likely downvoting because "it's PHP also" is utterly incorrect, yet stated as if it's fact. As for the UI, many HN members (including pg?) have expressed the idea that the types of people that get hung up on UI shortcomings are a close approximation to the types of people we wouldn't want as members, anyway.
- baby 15y ago> the idea that the types of people that get hung up on UI shortcomings are a close approximation to the types of people we wouldn't want as members, anyway. I'm sorry but you sound like a ... "we"? You speak for the community? Which I'm part of. I'm using HN, I love HN, I just know when to recognize a UI is a bad UI. You want me to write a blog post about what is wrong with this UI point per point? I even considered re-doing it myself and submit it here but I don't have the time now. I might sound aggressive but I really don't like people taking quick conclusions.
- roel_v 15y agoRight, because all the readers of, say, CNN.com care about whatever language that website is written in?
- BrandonM 15y agoFrom that perspective, sure, but the original context was that Scheme is not useful to a programmer except perhaps as an instructional endeavor. I gave evidence contradicting that assertion.