Bitcoin: the Stripe perspective

Re:Bitcoin: the Stripe perspective by MichaelGG on Monday July 21, 2014 @04:34PM (#8065839)

ML and LISPs existed. Surely Scheme in the browser would be a better language and implementable in the 10-day window JS had.

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Re:Bitcoin: the Stripe perspective by mseebach on Monday July 21, 2014 @05:55PM (#8066232)

Functional programming is barely mainstream today, it certainly wasn't in 1995. Netscape had enough on their plate convincing people that "the web" is a cool thing and they should be on it without driving a programming paradigm change at the same time.

Seriously, it's 20 years ago. You're operating with extreme hindsight.

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Re:Bitcoin: the Stripe perspective by MichaelGG on Monday July 21, 2014 @11:51PM (#8067311)

Does ML force much of a paradigm? Make mutable the default if you want. FWIW I wasn't much of a fan of it in the late 90s either.

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