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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? by sundarurfriend on Friday January 15, 2021 @02:54AM (#25788142)
> In some form or another, all existing languages (other than joke langs) are in this space.

I was hoping there was going to be some insightful critique after that long preamble. This is similar to an "all languages are Turing complete" type nitpick that doesn't add much to the conversation.

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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? by eyelidlessness on Friday January 15, 2021 @09:04PM (#25799223)
If you look downthread, I missed an important bit of context where the goal is solving programming challenges, not general programming problems (which I misperceived). That’s a significantly more narrow focus to which none of my preamble or conclusion is applicable.
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