echu_marbdan

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   by echu_marbdan 11y ago

   Why are Lisps excellent, is a better question. They work well with structure editors, and they allow for very powerful metaprogramming of the language to add in any needed features. Those forms of excellence do not put Lisp on the JVM, n
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   by echu_marbdan 11y ago

   That's a false dichotomy nowadays. Corporations have learned that, even if you pay, they can still get away with having you be the product. For that matter, Windows 10 isn't free for a bunch of people either, while FOSS, which is
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   by echu_marbdan 11y ago

   C++ is obviously not the pinnacle of PL development, but real-world impact is something else entirely. Unfortunately, the data point doesn't mean much; we tend to, collectively, reach a platform that's "good enough" and
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   by echu_marbdan 11y ago

   I don't think naming names was a mistake; rather, I think the names demonstrate that your thesis doesn't have anything to do with "Beating the Averages". I mean, by your definition, Flub is literally every new language,
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   by echu_marbdan 11y ago

   > Is BASIC more powerful than Assembly? I doubt it, you can do anything in assembly, and BASIC is deliberately limited [4]. Doesn't this definition make the "power" of all Turing-complete languages equal? > In other wor