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Re:Lisping at JPL Revisited by bitwize on Saturday January 28, 2023 @06:29PM (#34563109)
The standard operating system API should provide abstractions for all general real-world objects the machine is expected to represent or interact with: dates, times, durations, recurrences, abstract time concepts like "the second Monday of every month except when it falls on a holiday", people, places, events, to-do lists...

These are things that businesses have to deal with every day. The fact that we don't have those things, standard, as a part of a programmer's toolkit is a great failure of language and OS designers.

https://web.archive.org/web/20180223094826/http://www.xent.c...

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Re:Lisping at JPL Revisited by WalterBright on Saturday January 28, 2023 @06:39PM (#34563180)
As a language designer and implementer, I have spent a lot of hours writing time&date code, and disagree that I'm to blame for them not being standard.

I've also released them with a Boost license, so anyone can use them for any purpose.

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