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Re:Robpike/Lisp: Toy Lisp 1.5 interpreter in Go by kazinator on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @02:35PM (#23554987)
It looks a lot like a manifestation of incommensurability as observed by Kuhn:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradigm_shift#Incommensurabil...

This is exactly what we see. People adhering to different computing paradigms use some of the same words (e.g. "type"), but they have different meanings and basically they talk past each other as a result.

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