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Re:Advice to my younger self: become allergic to the churn by _bxg1 on Thursday August 08, 2019 @01:35PM (#20646611)
The same criticism (which is a valid one) is doubly true of Lisp, but Lisp doesn't take half the flak that JavaScript does.
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Re:Advice to my younger self: become allergic to the churn by marshray on Thursday August 08, 2019 @01:54PM (#20646825)
"There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses."

- Bjarne Stroustrup

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Re:Advice to my younger self: become allergic to the churn by vkou on Thursday August 08, 2019 @01:54PM (#20646817)
That's because there's three or four orders of magnitude more JS code out in the wild, then there is Lisp code.
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