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Re:What's Coming in Python 3.8 by newen on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @08:38PM (#20465523)
Haha, what was that quote? Something like, any language is going to iterate towards a crappy version of lisp.
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Re:What's Coming in Python 3.8 by tjalfi on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @10:20PM (#20466128)
Greenspun's Tenth Rule[0]

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

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule

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Re:What's Coming in Python 3.8 by aitchnyu on Thursday July 18, 2019 @01:11AM (#20466918)
How would you subvert Greenspun in large codebases without Common Lisp? I once used Drools the rules engine which used a dynamic scripting language on Java objects. Python could have replaced that language, with much better tooling, errors etc.
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Re:What's Coming in Python 3.8 by tjalfi on Thursday July 18, 2019 @10:25AM (#20470079)
Could you have written that system in a mix of Java and or another scripting language such as JRuby[0]?

[0] http://wiki.c2.com/?AlternateHardAndSoftLayers

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Re:What's Coming in Python 3.8 by aitchnyu on Friday July 19, 2019 @01:54AM (#20476463)
IIRC MVEL language was integrated deeply into Drools. JRuby would have been awesome.
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