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> and then they say "this language is Turing complete and therefore should be able to do anything you want it to do." i'm pretty sure that no designers of mode
by zabzonk 4y ago
> and then they say "this language is Turing complete and therefore should be able to do anything you want it to do."
i'm pretty sure that no designers of modern languages would say anything as naive as that.
> sible in Lisp was the implementation of an object oriented programming system without having to change the compiler!
haven't people done that using C?
> This meant that all code written in Python 2 could not be leveraged in Python 3
not all python 2 code could be directly "leveraged", but it certainly could be translated, and has been.
don't get me wrong - i like lisp, but this article would not convince me if i was thinking of coming to it as a newbie.
- medo-bear 4y ago> not all python 2 code could be directly "leveraged", but it certainly could be translated, and has been translating is an effort. running lisp code thats 30 years old is mostly a matter of pressing play > don't get me wrong - i like lisp, but this article would not convince me if i was thinking of coming to it as a newbie given that this is more of a "tweet" than an article i think you missed the point
- zabzonk 4y ago> given that this is more of a "tweet" than an article i think you missed the point this wasn't posted on twitter. but if you mean it was short and of poor content, then i agree with you.
- medo-bear 4y agoi mean it was probably never meant to be rich in content in the way as to convince users to learn lisp