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kung-fu-master

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    Comment #6821623

    From this message I understood that the Go is a language only for him and not for others developers.

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    Comment #3765654

    Flask is best IMHO. Django is good enough.

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    Comment #3646467

    Ok, maybe Java on some cases worse choice over JS. But Java has one preeminence over JS. With Java we can teach more advantage level of software construction. It's construction of …

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    Comment #3645952

    As CS teacher I'm agree with others that JS is terrible choice as first language. Python is much better. Also Pascal is good option here. Even Java better than JS. What is their go…

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    Comment #3645630

    But Mercurial was written in Python and performance is comparable to git. So, his argument is not correct about the performance reason on choice of C over C++. Even interpreted Pyt…

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    Comment #3608361

    Have you looked at Nemerle?

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    Ask HN: was Stripe written in Common Lisp?

    From https://stripe.com/about: "Andreas has hacked on everything from packaging systems to graph databases in Common Lisp. He used to help Patrick and Saikat with their Lisp woes i…

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    Ask HN: Is any schools still use Scheme?

    Are there schools who use Scheme as programming language? I want to make some experiment on one of my classes by switching to Scheme. I already use Python for all other classes (ch…

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    Comment #3399945

    Why not HTDP or SICP?

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    Comment #3394821

    As school teacher I think that "Introduction to programming" should increase motivation on further learning of programming. About 10-20 years ago it was very simple task. Computers…

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    Comment #3327174

    Try Panda3D (www.panda3d.org)

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    Comment #3310805

    From 2 to 4 hours. Everyday.

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    Comment #3219080

    I have found 31 repos on Common Lisp. Clojure - 3956 repos. Compare to: Ruby - 141811 repos. Python - 67482 repos. It seems that writing on Ruby is more fun than writing in Lisp.

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    Ask HN: Silence in Lisp community

    What happened with Lisp community? There is no new announces, success stories etc. Lisp bloggers stopped to update their blogs. Is this the end of Lisp era? Maybe Python/Ruby/... o…

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    Ask HN: MBP 13" or MBP 15"?

    My current laptop is Dell with 17" screen (1920x1200). I'm switching to MBP but I can't decide MBP 13" or MBP 15". Is it comfortable to work on MBP 13" (mostly web development)? Or…

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    Comment #2546886

    Exactly. AFAIK, it has small core language and all other constructions like if/else, while, for, foreach etc are made with macros. I think that Nemerle is Lisp macros + static type…

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    Ask HN: which NoSQL database engine is better to use with Common Lisp?

    I want to find NoSQL database engine which has integration with Common Lisp. I want to use it on one server environment. The main point: easy of use. I like Redis approach with abs…

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    Comment #2037368

    http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/GHC:FAQ#Why_isn.27t_GHC_a...

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    Comment #2037255

    There is article about language but it's only in russian: http://rsdn.ru/article/dotnet/ElaDevelopment.xml I will ask author to translate it into english.

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    The Ela Programming Language

    I have found very interesting functional language from russian developers community (RSDN). Short description from language site: --------------------------------------------------…

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    Ask HN: Modern approach to web application development with Common Lisp

    Recently, we have started developing web application with Django. Everything is wonderful, but Python is not Lisp and I feel uncomfortable with Python. In the sense that with Pytho…