Rust for Rubyists

Re:Rust for Rubyists by ngcc_hk on Sunday December 24, 2017 @10:12PM (#16002438)

Or every language complicated enough is reinventing lisp partially.

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Re:Rust for Rubyists by ShabbosGoy on Monday December 25, 2017 @01:53AM (#16003077)

For the uninitiated:

Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.

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Re:Rust for Rubyists by emacsgifs on Monday December 25, 2017 @02:13AM (#16003123)

I think GP is referring to a slew of current trending languages which are partly functional and have lisp-style macros.

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Re:Rust for Rubyists by oblio on Monday December 25, 2017 @03:35AM (#16003333)

This quote assumes that the creators of Rust didn't know about Lisp.

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