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Re:Why don't we listen to Occam's Razor when it comes to pro... by gonyea on Thursday December 10, 2015 @03:44AM (#10709623)
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I love programming, but in the context of building great products. Languages are just a choose-your-compromise adventure, except JavaScript was chosen for you (it's fun!).

If Lisp powered Salesforce, I'm not sure anyone would describe that sausage as elegant. I'd love to see it consume a SOAP API... Or talk to a Mainframe (lol).

I use a lot of languages in every project and it's great. Purity is boring.

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Re:Why don't we listen to Occam's Razor when it comes to pro... by davelnewton on Friday December 11, 2015 @01:56PM (#10719051)
Boring? I don't want my languages to be exciting, I want what they produce to be exciting. I want my languages to be as simplistic as possible, and to allow the abstractions my problem domain require.
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