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I just found out Brendan Eich originally wanted to put a Lisp language in the browser, but his superiors insisted on a language similar to Java : r/programming

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923 votes, 302 comments. 6.7M subscribers in the programming community. Computer Programming.
69 months ago

Review of 8 Common Lisp IDEs! Which one to choose? [EN Subs] : r/Common_Lisp

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Generally something like the LispWorks IDE will be unusual because it is quite different from SBCL/GNU Emacs/SLIME. Everything is integrated in one running...
21 months ago

Was Javascript really made in 10 days? : r/programming

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The 10-day version didn't really have much of an API, so... yeah, literally anyone who has a CS degree should be able to build a toy language in a couple weeks.
15 months ago

What did Alan Kay mean by, "Lisp is the greatest single programming language ever designed"? : r/programming

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Lisp isn't a single programming language, but a style of syntax shared by a family of programming languages.
86 months ago

It’s JavaScript all the way down : r/ProgrammerHumor

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I'm wondering how much RAM is required for a JavaScript interpreter. You can probably write one for a uC. Just imagine, PCIe drivers in JavaScript.
21 months ago

Saw this on twitter and figured it belonged here : r/ProgrammerHumor

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Debugging JS sucks because the JS interpreter will often try to run your code where most other languages wouldn't compile, leading to unexpected behavior.
52 months ago

Jonathan Blow on scripting languages for games : r/programming

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Jonathan Blow is most known for the puzzle game The Witness, (and Braid before that). He streams regularly on Twitch.
67 months ago

Why do people build everything in JavaScript? : r/learnprogramming

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Why would people use it to build facial feature detectors, plugins for desktop environments, and literally anything else not web related?
4 months ago

How we turned JSON into a full programming language : r/programming

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Jup, I agree. I've seen lots of uber-flexible xml-configurable solutions, and I understand it's tempting to start something like this.
115 months ago

Some Use-Cases for JS Generator Functions : r/javascript

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Generators do have a bunch of cool use cases. Most notoriously, they allow for implementation of call/cc-like / algebraic effect-like semantics.
40 months ago