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0 pointsdontlaugh2y ago0 comments

We could’ve gotten something more like a simpler Swift if some attention was paid to state of the art in language research and implementation. No nil, composable errors, integrated generics, sum types, etc.

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pjmlp2y ago

If you like language archeology, compare K&R C with the state of systems programming languages outside Bell Labs, in regards to safety and language features, since JOVIAL was introduced in 1958.

Hence why there is a certain irony towards the opinion UNIX is done, yet the efforts towards language design are as they are.

Plan 9, Inferno and Limbo came to be, and that was it.

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pjmlp2y ago

If you like language archeology, compare K&R C with the state of systems programming languages outside Bell Labs, in regards to safety and language features, since JOVIAL was introduced in 1958.

Hence why there is a certain irony towards the opinion UNIX is done, yet the efforts towards language design are as they are.

Plan 9, Inferno and Limbo came to be, and that was it.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse