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Re:The Python Paradox is now the Scala Paradox by gizmo on Saturday September 19, 2009 @11:08AM (#832024)
As a test app for his programming language, of course. Not because it's the best tool for the job. He essentially built an entire language for this website -- that won't give you a highscore in the productivity hall of fame :)
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Re:The Python Paradox is now the Scala Paradox by mbrubeck on Saturday September 19, 2009 @12:24PM (#832094)
And yet, even with Python and Ruby well established, he still felt the desire to build his own language. And the language he chose to build was Lisp-like rathar than Python- or Ruby-like.
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