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Re:Alan Kay on Messaging (1998) by mbrock on Sunday May 03, 2015 @11:10AM (#9481561)
What makes Scala more "practical" than Common Lisp, other than incidental matters of library support on the JVM?
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Re:Alan Kay on Messaging (1998) by parasubvert on Sunday May 03, 2015 @12:04PM (#9481809)
That, and the dearth of people that know CLOS, or are able and WANT to learn CLOS. "Design by resume" surrounds us.
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