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Mirth – a type-safe concatenative purely functional programming language

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Re: Mirth – a type-safe concatenative purely functional programming language

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Your profile says you like tinkering, yet you don't understand why others would tinker and experiment with new things? Do you only give yourself a pass for tinkering instead of using your precious free-time to credentialize in and improve existing software?

Man, I don't know if it's against site guidelines, but I've never liked using people's bios - even if public on HN - as ammunition against their comments. Isn't it better to just respond to the content of the comments themselves?

> I've never liked using people's bios - even if public on HN - as ammunition against their comments

I'm inclined to agree, but in the case of outright hypocrisy I think the point deserves to be made, because hypocrisy is literally the worst

Re: Mirth – a type-safe concatenative purely functional programming language

#72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your profile says you like tinkering, yet you don't understand why others would tinker and experiment with new things? Do you only give yourself a pass for tinkering instead of using your precious free-time to credentialize in and improve existing software?

Man, I don't know if it's against site guidelines, but I've never liked using people's bios - even if public on HN - as ammunition against their comments. Isn't it better to just respond to the content of the comments themselves?

IIRC, site guidelines don't specifically say "no ad hominems," but it seems to be generally understood that "no ad hominems" is the correct interpretation of this guideline:

When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: Mirth – a type-safe concatenative purely functional programming language

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> I know you are a gigantic egomaniac and I'm wasting my time writing this, but if you could ever repress your inflated sense of (mis)justice for two seconds, you might notice that the poster actually asked a perfectly valid question. Also a perfectly trivial one, an insulting one, and one that has been asked countless times, and that has no real place in a post presenting a new language but goes to meta yak shaving…

Seeing as his account is 11 hours old as of my writing this and that this is his only comment I have a little paranoid-detective feeling that this may be from PC, just an alt account, even if not they are clearly a very angry person

Not as far as I can tell. There are users whose emotions have taken this form for whatever reason, and they show up like superheroes in arbitrary scenes.

That comment was killed automatically by HN's anti-troll software, but I unkilled it last night. Maybe that was a mistake since it led to more offtopicness.

Re: Mirth – a type-safe concatenative purely functional programming language

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post #59

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Are you saying that lisps are an exception to needing to see some small examples at first when looking at a new language? Why do you think they're an exception?

In LISP-like languages a compiler/interpeter is a simple example.

https://github.com/sbcl/sbcl/tree/master/src/compiler

Doesn't look simple to me.

This one is in one file, but more than half a megabyte of code spanning close to 12000 lines:

https://github.com/clisp-lang/clisp/blob/master/src/compiler...

The Emacs Lisp byte compiler also doesn't look like a good small example for neophytes:

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/lisp/emacs-l...

Re: Mirth – a type-safe concatenative purely functional programming language

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Why do we need yet another language instead of improving the existing ones?

Your profile says you like tinkering, yet you don't understand why others would tinker and experiment with new things? Do you only give yourself a pass for tinkering instead of using your precious free-time to credentialize in and improve existing software?

I like tinkering but I don't add to the mess by open sourcing yet another language.

Re: Mirth – a type-safe concatenative purely functional programming language

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Why do we need yet another language instead of improving the existing ones?

I think that history has taught us that the best way to get existing languages to improve is to demonstrate the value of a paradigm or feature out-of-band in some other language, possibly a new one.

I see your point. This is what happens now with Java.
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