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by cy_hauser 7y ago
I'll agree that the ideas and power of Lisps have caught on and are even pervasive. Just that "thinking in Lisp" is what I believe has held it back. I have fond memories of a number of editors: VIM, EMACS, VEdit, and KEdit (R
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by cy_hauser 7y ago
While I disagree with you, your comment is both valid and well stated.
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by cy_hauser 7y ago
Sigh. Somebody always responds without reading the full comment. "I don't like part of the first sentence therefore there's no need to consider the rest of what the comment says." There's no sin in saying you don&#x
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by cy_hauser 7y ago
You caught me. I'll stop spreading nonsense.
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by cy_hauser 7y ago
Indentation and semicolons don't impact the number of things your mind has to remember at one time. Nested classes are a problem as we're finally seeing with a bit of a backlash against OOP these days. XML is just markup and not a
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by cy_hauser 7y ago
>> Do you have any idea of how much is there from Lisp in e.g. Javascript and Python? Absolutely! I'm not saying that Lisp is a bad language. I like Lisp (and Forth). I'm saying that its syntax (and the why of its syntax) ar
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by cy_hauser 7y ago
Programming languages were created in order to bridge the gap between our minds and computer hardware. Why wouldn't each language be created in a way that the language's author(s) believed best to bridge that gap? Most of these f
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by cy_hauser 7y ago
C, Forth, Lisp these were all "first era" languages. Each had a chance to be used, to grow, to spawn other languages. To become the common way of thinking. Nobody forced the paths each language took. They grew organically. As peop
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by cy_hauser 7y ago
The curse of Lisp is not its power, elegance, flexibility, etc. The curse of Lisp is its syntax! Both "all those parentheses" and what they represent is the curse of Lisp. Lisp forces coders to think in terms of infix trees. These
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by cy_hauser 7y ago
I don't know why you're being downvoted. We fight wars with the intent of cheering when the leaders of the opposition die.
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by cy_hauser 7y ago
I suspect this is just the pendulum swinging too far in the other direction. In a year the PhDs and such will be back to normal. Sometimes it's just easier to clamp down on everything and then ease things than it is to try to figure al
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by cy_hauser 7y ago
That's not as bad as H1-B abuse and reflects a real possibility for any business. In other words, it's at least "fair." The H1-B abuse is based on corporate lies. It's hard to claim that you need H1-B workers when y
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by cy_hauser 7y ago
It's not a matter of retraining. The issue was US corporations abusing the H1-B system to fire expensive US workers and replace them with Indian workers at half the going US worker rate. There's not shortage of workers for compani
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by cy_hauser 8y ago
No, not quite. Rob Pike said in a video about a year or so ago that now they have enough experience to start thinking about generics. That the process is now just starting and you shouldn't expect them any time soon. The Go core team h
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by cy_hauser 8y ago
Which ones? Need compile to executable, no separate runtime/fat jar, non-system language (C, C++, D, Rust, etc.) with garbage collection and is production ready (not pre 1.0).
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by cy_hauser 9y ago
Whoa. I'm afraid to look ;-) My immediate thought is, "lets combine all the mental fun of stack juggling from forth with the tree juggling from lisp." My brain hurts!
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by cy_hauser 9y ago
Diana Moon? Is that you? I haven't seen you since the dance. --Harrison