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Re:The Ecstasy Programming Language Targets Cloud-Native Com... by z3t4 on Sunday November 10, 2019 @01:28PM (#21499345)
When learning a programming language; it takes several years to discover the deficiencies, after a few more years you can work around and avoid them. keep doing it several more years and you almost forget about them.
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Re:The Ecstasy Programming Language Targets Cloud-Native Com... by mncharity on Monday November 11, 2019 @12:36AM (#21502426)
>> someone who decides to create a language [...should] spend some time studying a lot of languages

> When learning a programming language; it takes several years [for you] to discover the deficiencies

A valid response. Also a sad commentary on our impoverished and siloed/balkanized professional literature and communities around programming language design and implementation.

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