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Zero Feet: a proposal for a systems-free Lisp

2022148 points78 commentsProgramming Languages details

Some make the claim that "all languages depend on C"; 1 not only is this statement ill-typed, as implementations perhaps depend on other languages, and languages rarely do, but the statement would still be wrong if we correct it. Some will retort by writing parts of an implementation in another "system language"; more…

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I don't want to go to Chel-C

2022123 points124 commentsLife, Learning & Writing details

We are constantly reading of stories with one main theme where people turn to seemingly "simple" systems in order to manage complexity; except that these systems manage to produce complex problems, without having to acquire historical cruft, or suffering from any of the usual issues that produce non-essential…