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   by asyd 4y ago

   From the article: "My conclusion is that there are major, well-justified reasons for why people strongly dislike functional languages. The hypothesis I aim to test with a new programming language is: By making different tradeoffs, thes
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   by asyd 4y ago

   I really appreciate the design principles behind Cuis. Great to see it mentioned here. I'm sure there must be plenty of people (like me) who have heard good things about Smalltalk over the years but haven't had much chance to expl
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   by asyd 4y ago

   I agree, but I'm grateful that it exists. After much searching for the perfect languages and perfect tools (while using emacs as a simple text editor), it finally dawned on me that Emacs itself is as close as I'd get to a lisp mac
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   by asyd 4y ago

   Reading Peter Norvig's PAIP ( https://github.com/norvig/paip-lisp ) in 1998 totally blew my mind. It completely changed how I think about programming in every other language I use(d). I love it still, and always wil