Re:I want off Mr. Golang’s Wild Ride (2020)
by steveklabnik on Thursday April 28, 2022 @05:45PM
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I don't mean to say anything about conditions generally, just to mention that they have existed in non-Lisp languages on occasion.
> We're very fortunate that programming language design doesn't advance solely by giving people more of what they already use.
Agreed!
Conversely, I understand condition systems, and I'm not a very good programmer. (I've tried and failed to learn Rust once already) That's a pretty low upper bound on how hard they are, especially relative to advanced features of languages like Haskell.
We're very fortunate that programming language design doesn't advance solely by giving people more of what they already use.