jes5199

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   by jes5199 17y ago

   I've become convinced that CSS is an elaborate trick played upon graphics designers; It's an impressively inappropriate tool for laying out text, but given a few hundred hours of trial and error, you can make anything almost work. I think i
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   by jes5199 17y ago

   okay, here's the argument as I read it: 1) functional languages are made of lambdas a) when they aren't made of lambdas, it's "just an optimization." 2) non-functional languages aren't made of lambdas b) when they have lambdas, it's jus
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   by jes5199 17y ago

   have you seen Alan Kay and company's "STEPS Toward The Reinvention of Programming" ? They're doing almost exactly that -- making small, powerful programming languages that make it easier to re-describe the fundamentals of computing. There's