• @leftzero
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    42 months ago

    makes it sound like they’re all equal, and there hasn’t been any progression

    Programming peaked with Lisp (and SQL for database stuff).

    Every “progression” made since Lisp has been other languages adding features to (partially but not quite completely) do stuff that could already be done in Lisp, but with less well implemented (though probably with probably less parentheses).

    • @[email protected]
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      52 months ago

      Spoken like a true Lisp fan. I dunno, I really like static typing, and too many brackets gets tiresome.

      • @[email protected]
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        2 months ago

        You can use typed Lisp, there are plenty of them, from Typed Racket to Shen in their complexity. Or to make your own type system in 50-100 lines when you actually need