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Re:Frege: A JVM pure functional programming language in the ... by gngeal on Thursday November 07, 2013 @10:22AM (#6689765)
"A language that doesn't need a runtime, like C?"

The language perhaps doesn't, but most actual programs do. I'm definitely not going to write my own standard library just because I can.

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Re:Frege: A JVM pure functional programming language in the ... by waterlion on Thursday November 07, 2013 @10:40AM (#6689924)
I wasn't advocating one choice or another. It's just the person I replied to just said "JVM ugh", which isn't necessarily reasonable.
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Re:Frege: A JVM pure functional programming language in the ... by Peaker on Thursday November 07, 2013 @05:35PM (#6692938)
A "Runtime" and a "standard library" are different things. There are a lot of (annoying to install) libraries for C.
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Re:Frege: A JVM pure functional programming language in the ... by gngeal on Friday November 08, 2013 @11:21AM (#6697046)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows_library_files...

Now what could the "RT" part possibly mean?

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Re:Frege: A JVM pure functional programming language in the ... by Peaker on Sunday November 10, 2013 @04:35AM (#6705872)
MS are unique in calling their C library a "Runtime library". Commonly, a support system that does GC and other automatic management for managed languages is called a "runtime", and the various common functions available to C program are called a "standard library". The difference is that in C, you can write a program that uses none of the standard library at all, whereas a managed program will use the "runtime" for doing anything at all.
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