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Re:Metabase: Why we picked Clojure by GFK_of_xmaspast on Wednesday December 02, 2015 @08:58PM (#10667243)
How much assembly have you done? "for"/"while"/etc are coming out of structured programming.
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Re:Metabase: Why we picked Clojure by j-pb on Thursday December 03, 2015 @04:43AM (#10668728)
Yes, but that in turn was inspired by the patterns and idioms in assembly that didn't fuck up your codebase.

Simple conditional forward jumps, if, simple conditional backward jumps, while, and simple conditional backward jumps depending on a variable, for.

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