Re:Directly compiling Scheme to WebAssembly: lambdas, recurs...
by abrax3141 on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @10:31AM
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Ahhhh! A breath of fresh air in this world of ugly Algol-wedged hyper-utilitarianism. (I was going to say “hyper-functionalism”, but the unintended pun confused the sense.) [Although, I must admit that js is actually pretty descent, and can almost be used like Lisp if you look at it hard enough and cross-eyed.]
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Re:Directly compiling Scheme to WebAssembly: lambdas, recurs...
by xigoi on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @02:11PM
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JavaScript was originally meant to be a Scheme dialect, but corporate people wanted it to look more like Java.
Re:Directly compiling Scheme to WebAssembly: lambdas, recurs...
by abrax3141 on Thursday June 01, 2023 @07:56PM
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Yes. And, once more with feeling: https://xkcd.com/297/