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Re:Killing Off Wasabi by applecore on Thursday June 25, 2015 @11:47AM (#9778734)
Sorry, but nine-hundred and ninety-nine times out of a thousand, it's a complete and total waste of resources to write a proprietary language or runtime enviroment to solve a non-core business problem.
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Re:Killing Off Wasabi by tptacek on Thursday June 25, 2015 @11:54AM (#9778798)
First: they didn't write a runtime. They used .NET/Mono as their runtime.

Second, you wrote your comment in a text box rendered by an application notorious for being written in a custom language (in fact, it seems like arc:lisp::wasabi:.net).

Third, do you have evidence to support "nine hundred ninety-nine times out of a thousand", or is that hyperbole? Have you worked on projects where people used custom languages? Your argument would be much more interesting if we could read more about your experience with it.

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Re:Killing Off Wasabi by to3m on Thursday June 25, 2015 @11:58AM (#9778831)
You could view their core business problem as easily creating products that as many people as possible can pay for (since that's how they make their money).
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