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Kilson
Jan 16, 2003

I EAT LITTLE CHILDREN FOR BREAKFAST !!11!!1!!!!111!

Pollyanna posted:

I just kinda assume that any of the magical stuff that Lisp does was subsumed into modern languages long ago, so none of it is impressive or out of the ordinary for those of us using anything newer than COBOL.

I think a lot of that stuff has finally been making it into more 'modern' languages only very recently, and each language seems to take different parts. That's why things like Greenspun's 10th rule exist: a lot of complicated software (including other programming languages, IMO), poorly reimplement parts of Common Lisp.

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Kilson
Jan 16, 2003

I EAT LITTLE CHILDREN FOR BREAKFAST !!11!!1!!!!111!

emoji posted:

I'm working through a compiler book with Racket and I'm liking it a lot.

What book?

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