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Why are Lisps excellent, is a better question. They work well with structure editors, and they allow for very powerful metaprogramming of the language to add in any needed features…

That's a false dichotomy nowadays. Corporations have learned that, even if you pay, they can still get away with having you be the product. For that matter, Windows 10 isn't free f…

C++ is obviously not the pinnacle of PL development, but real-world impact is something else entirely. Unfortunately, the data point doesn't mean much; we tend to, collectively, re…

I don't think naming names was a mistake; rather, I think the names demonstrate that your thesis doesn't have anything to do with "Beating the Averages". I mean, by your definition…

> Is BASIC more powerful than Assembly? I doubt it, you can do anything in assembly, and BASIC is deliberately limited [4]. Doesn't this definition make the "power" of all Turing-c…