@[email protected] to Programmer Humor • 3 days agoYup...i can confirm thatlemmy.worldimagemessage-square42fedilinkarrow-up1270arrow-down149
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minus-square@suslink9•2 days agoI think the problems there are exacerbated a lot by over-eager type coercion and other crappy design decisions inherited from almost 30 years ago
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink5•2 days agoYep lua and lisp/scheme are also unityped and not even close to as broken. All are remarkably similar languages, theory-wise. …also something something Guido not getting tail call elimination and people sending him copies of the wizard book. It’s been a while. (And, yes, lua does proper tail calls).
I think the problems there are exacerbated a lot by over-eager type coercion and other crappy design decisions inherited from almost 30 years ago
Yep lua and lisp/scheme are also unityped and not even close to as broken. All are remarkably similar languages, theory-wise.
…also something something Guido not getting tail call elimination and people sending him copies of the wizard book. It’s been a while.
(And, yes, lua does proper tail calls).