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Re:Your favourite programming language is not good enough by bwarp on Friday February 24, 2012 @05:12PM (#3631340)
What abstractions in particular? I'm interested from the perspective of resolving any issues in that space.
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Re:Your favourite programming language is not good enough by pjmlp on Saturday February 25, 2012 @07:54AM (#3632836)
The following concepts are lacking:

- generics - enumerations (the iota thing feels like a poor man's enums) - operators as method names - lack of exceptions leads sometimes to ugly defer/recover patterns - some data types are special like maps, as you cannot implement similar types yourself

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