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   by intoverflow 18y ago

   Not every program is written in the context of "I need to pick a language to use at my desk job." In fact, a great deal of software is very obviously not written in this context.
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   by intoverflow 18y ago

   Sure, though the authors of these applications would tell you that the language did make these activities easier. Of course, "make new things possible" is a tricky thing to make sense of. What new thing did Python make possible? Or Ruby
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   by intoverflow 18y ago

   This is a bit unfair. Every code repository has this sort of thing. The quality of a repository shouldn't be the ratio of [no-external-dependency + extremely mature] projects, but rather should be based on whether or not people can find w
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   by intoverflow 18y ago

   This isn't a "spending credibility" situation. Credibility is something you need when you're asking someone to believe something based on your authority. In this case, I wrote an article filled with links with the hope that the reader cou