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Japan is kind of quirky. When other academics adopted Lisp, they adopted Prolog. When the rest of the world adopted Perl or Python, they embraced Ruby. Just bec
by henning 19y ago
Japan is kind of quirky. When other academics adopted Lisp, they adopted Prolog. When the rest of the world adopted Perl or Python, they embraced Ruby. Just because Japan does something doesn't mean the rest of the world will follow.
- Neoryder 19y agoi think for the case of ruby, being invented by a jap influenced its adoption
- deleted 19y ago[deleted]
- kingnothing 19y agoYou're probably right, but "jap" is a racial slur these days.
- Neoryder 19y agosorry, didn't know