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> That's an out-of-the-box feature for a modern language. Or for any Scheme for the last 30 years, but don't let that change your views on how "modern" you lan
by klibertp 13y ago
> That's an out-of-the-box feature for a modern language.
Or for any Scheme for the last 30 years, but don't let that change your views on how "modern" you language is :)
- jerf 13y ago"Everything" was invented by the 70s (and a lot in the 60s); unfortunately the huge stinking popularity of GUIs combined with relentless drum beats of the latest code being due out yesterday took us on a decades-long detour through what turned out to be some bad ideas (OO in the "model the physical world" sense, which GUI frameworks deceptively made appear to work, event-based systems which are simple spaghetti-code redux in the Dijkstra sense of "spaghetti code").
- munificent 13y agoCompared to JavaScript, Scheme is a modern language!