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Re:Challenging Clojure in Common Lisp (2014) by lvh on Sunday January 08, 2017 @09:12AM (#13349730)
Isn't this just a convoluted way of arguing that there's no such thing as idiomatic multicore C? If everything's idiomatic, then surely nothing is.
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Re:Challenging Clojure in Common Lisp (2014) by fsloth on Sunday January 08, 2017 @01:50PM (#13351232)
No, it was a convoluted way to say that the attempt to measure C programs by their quality as "idiomatic" will unlikely bear any fruits of value.

That said, if there is any non-idiomatic C code then the attempts of 'experts' in other languages to mangle C to look more like their language surely fall into this category (There are lots of examples where the author starts 'We can make C look more like fortran by defining our macros to replace these keywords..).

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