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The Agile movement was all about dropping the process hoop jumping and focusing on solving problems efficiently, that's why it was considered extreme. Too extreme, as the one true …

Speaking of hate, you might want to consider a look in the mirror.

It does? Never made much sense to me; especially considering that it already means something useful, equality; which then becomes == and sticks out like a sore thumb. I prefer 'let…

Hidden deep inside almost any other language sits a tiny Forth; often chained to a wall out of sight from user code and restricted to evaluating expressions and shuffling function …

Agreed, that's one of the more important advantages of Common Lisp in my book. But the reason it works so well is that the standardized version was based on plenty of experience an…

This is one of the fundamental features of Cixl [0]. I wish more interpreters would support emitting their host language; having the option of compiling statically linked executabl…

Don't bother; he's playing his part perfectly so far, which means that so did you. If we can keep this shit storm going for a month or so, Zuckerbot Inc. is going down; and I have …

Besides basic semantics, there's not that much stack juggling going on really. Cixl offers four stack operators, drop, dup, swap and clear; the idea is to use more convenient const…

Thank you! PostScript is another example.

How can you be so sure that's the case? It's generally very difficult to get a wider perspective from within the fish bowl, you need to step out to feel the difference. What I foun…

Not my intention at all, I have been writing code for 32 years, including several years of web/JS and I have yet to come across anything worse. If you can't even deal with other pe…

Glad to see Forth getting some attention, took me around 25 years of coding to find it. For those looking for a different take on the same ideas, I'm working on a Lisp-inspired For…

There are several leaner alternatives for application scripting, is it really worth dragging V8 around to get that capability? Lua would be one alternative. The reason I'm asking i…

Are you saying that closing files is now a cargo-cult thing to do? There are plenty of resources that are more important to clean up than memory. This has nothing to do with C.

Many functional languages don't support explicit returns, Lisp requires introducing another level of nesting to get support unless you're already in a supported form. I find that t…