jstuxx

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   by jstuxx 11y ago

   Lots of languages claim they are Scheme or Lisp dialects (JavaScript, Python, Ruby, Lua and others) in order to boost their popularity even though they have none of Lisp's unique features but just the general features you would expect
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   by jstuxx 11y ago

   That's a bit sad a great language like Haskell (I haven't personally used it but heard great things about it) is used for a hippie thing such as Facebook. Facebook doesn't even have much of a future, its a hippie fad just lik
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   by jstuxx 11y ago

   That's the lack of higher order functions and the lack of first class functions. Anyway I think higher order functions and method references have been added to Java 8 as well as Lambda functions.
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   by jstuxx 11y ago

   Java has functions one word "static".
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   by jstuxx 11y ago

   More like its FKF (Fear of the Known and Familiar). Most (if not all) programmers have experience with static typing and most of those experiences were not pleasant hence why a lot of people don't like static typing. People start to ha
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   by jstuxx 11y ago

   Why is Java one the of really awful ones? I know Java is not the best language, it's not my favorite language, but I wouldn't say its really awful.
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   by jstuxx 11y ago

   Doesn't Clojure already have optional static type annotations like Common Lisp? I thought it did when I looked through the tutorials. In Common Lisp you can define pretty much any type (with deftype), you can define algebraic types and