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C# was always better than Java as a language. The strength of Java is the ecosystem, and Java being open source and cross-platform from the beginning.

Yes, you must have individual constructors for the left and right cases in order to distinguish them. In C# you would use two distinct record types for this. Haskell’s syntax is mo…

You cant have a `type Foo = String | Strimg` in Haskell either.

Well it is a type union. The union of string and string is just string.

There is no "the interest of the people". There are lots of different people with different and often conflicting interests.

Half of his clever quotes are completely bonkers though and have been disproven by history. How many of you are proving your programs correct before entering them into the computer…

The GOTO-paper is widely misunderstood though. It is making a case for blocks and scopes and functions as structures which makes it easier to analyze and reason about the execution…

Sure, you can use parentheses everywhere, but the code would be quite noisy. Do you think this: ((window.location).href) == foo; is more readable than: window.location.href == foo;…

Thank you for this additional context. So in short, bitwise operators have lower precedence than comparisons to allow you to write: if (a==b & c==d) ... but of course, this means y…

I think it would be adopted exactly as widely as JavaScript is. People choose JavaScript because it is supported by the browser, not because they think it has a beautiful syntax. I…

Netscape had market dominance at the time so Internet Explorer had to keep bug-for-bug compatibility with Netscape to keep up. Given the amount of bugs and the lack of documentatio…

Scheme would probably be the most hated language in the world.

> Manage your time better. Thank you for the advice which is no doubt well-intentioned. But don't kid yourself. If you use your spare time for research and development to solve pro…

Are you perchance working in academia? Your suggestion seems to assume unlimited time and resources to write everything yourself, while the purpose of using third-party components …

> Identifying high-quality libraries and frameworks that meet your project needs This is a really important skill that I find difficult and frustrating. Does anyone have good advic…

But this is just computed gotos. There is no continuation passed. Arguably the main point of continuation-passing style is that you pass a continuation along with the jump. Hence t…

GOTO does not pass a continuation though, so I can't see how it is similar to continuation-passing style. GOTO is just a jump like jumps in machine code. BASIC does not have notion…

> "When I was younger, I looked at my great grandad's prisoner-of-war diaries and I just love everything about the period." Is this some kind of understated British humor?

The Grimm Brothers didn't write the stories, they collected and published folktales. In any case they would have been been out of copyright since Jacob Grimm died in 1863. Disney d…

It is still type inference though. If 2 is an int, the compiler perform type inference to figure out that the expression 2 + 2 is also an int. It is just that traditional languages…

But that would only help you if you assign the numeric literal directly to a variable. If you use it in an expression like `foo(10)` or `10 * bar` you would still not see the numer…