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Re:How would you change your favorite programming language t... by jronkone on Sunday December 11, 2011 @05:12PM (#3341286)
For the sake of argument (let ((my-favorite-programming-language (find-language "common-lisp")))):

I would like to see Lisp and *nix have babies. Take the best ideas of both and make something greater than their sum.

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Re:How would you change your favorite programming language t... by strager on Sunday December 11, 2011 @07:25PM (#3341636)
Care to give an example?

Are you referring to Unix tools (grep, awk, sed, cat, etc.), piping and redirection, or shell scripting overall?

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