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> People who think otherwise probably don’t understand why people like javascript and python and will never write any product that catches on. Ironically, this
by axlprose 4y ago
> People who think otherwise probably don’t understand why people like javascript and python and will never write any product that catches on.
Ironically, this has been posted on a popular site written in a dialect of scheme:
http://arclanguage.org/ http://arclanguage.org/
https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki
- baby 4y agohow is this ironic? HN was written by one person, and nobody needs to care what language they used to make it work.
- meltedcapacitor 4y agoWhere is the irony? HN does not expose scheme to the user. Don't think the parent was saying that it's impossible to write a good program in scheme/lisp, more that scheme as user interface for a software system is a hard sell... which seems anecdotally true.