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namekuseijin
11y ago
poor bipolar
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namekuseijin
11y ago
are people still learning python? eons ago when I last looked at it, people were still making this very question LOL it's the curse of open source software: as long as the source is out there, people with legacy software will continue
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namekuseijin
11y ago
right, most people are pigs I'm a dog and only eat bone marrow...
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namekuseijin
11y ago
a giant turkey, indeed probably even the motion was likely very similar to that of birds... you know, those careful steps one after the other of chicken...
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namekuseijin
11y ago
racket is a superset of scheme. I write perfectly valid scheme code and run in racket even with the #lang racket tag... now, let's not get started on RxRS compatibility...
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namekuseijin
11y ago
its features are comparable to old Lisps from the 70's, prior to Scheme and Common Lisp. Nothing really new here at all and lots of old bugs passing for features.
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namekuseijin
16y ago
it's actually a very small vocal minority who hates microsoft. They hate microsoft because microsoft means ubiquitous standardized flatten programming environments the way managers like, with sheeple programmers properly strapped and assem
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namekuseijin
16y ago
Microsoft Research is kinda like a country club for retired compsci laureates...
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namekuseijin
16y ago
that's bad assembly-style pseudo-code and thinking. Lisp favors higher-level, functional pseudo-code that readily runs as is! like in scheme: (write (let for ((i 0) (s 0)) (if (> i 100) s (for (+ 1 i) (+ i s))))) why would you
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namekuseijin
16y ago
Yeah, there'll come a time when to build systems all you need is a bunch of people talking to reach a consensus: how much to pay for a third party to write it for them. oops, it seems it already happens today...
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namekuseijin
16y ago
I wish there was a language called harmless which common folk could use to express common thought without any fear. It would go like this: do this do this and that and that too do this amen No branching nor decision trees as not to confuse
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namekuseijin
16y ago
Typed Racket combines all the inconvenience of type declarations with all the performance provided by a dynamic language.