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Re:Lisp is Poetry and Most Programmers Want Prose (2006) by gtani on Monday May 31, 2010 @09:41AM (#1392495)
Most of the devs I encounter recently are at least curious about different families of language

- ruby or python (GTD lang's)

- java, C and derivatives

- concurrent/FP: ocaml, clojure, scala, haskell, clean, erlang, F#

- lisp/scheme, dylan

- smalltalk, factor, Ioke, forth,

Fortunately, you can spend all weekend reading about languages:

- hacker news; reddit; infoq.com; artima.com; theServerside.com and .net; Lambda the Ultimate

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Re:Lisp is Poetry and Most Programmers Want Prose (2006) by JadeNB on Monday May 31, 2010 @12:22PM (#1392851)
> smalltalk, factor, Ioke, forth,

This is an unexpected grouping; the design philosophies of Factor and Forth seem quite different from those of Smalltalk, which in turn I think is only one of the points of inspiration for Ioke. Is there some deeper similarity that you're pointing out here?

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Re:Lisp is Poetry and Most Programmers Want Prose (2006) by igrekel on Monday May 31, 2010 @01:38PM (#1393022)
Not to mention how close are Smalltalk and Ruby.
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