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Fine, but can you name some language features that came out after the '90s that weren't in Lisp already? Excluding type systems?
by wes-exp 12y ago
Fine, but can you name some language features that came out after the '90s that weren't in Lisp already? Excluding type systems?
- lmm 12y agoNewer features tend to use type systems for part of their implementation because they're a powerful tool, but I feel the feature is its own thing. I'm excited about typeclasses, or anything else that solves the same problem. I'm excited about effect systems, which tend to be implemented as types but don't have to be. I hope to learn more about the matryoshka approach, which seems like the opposite thing or at least opposite emphasis to lisp's approach to metaprogramming (which emphasises doing the metaprogramming in the same language as the program itself).