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Jan 4, 2016 at 08:21

(let fac ([n 10]) (if (zero? n) 1 (* n (fac (sub1 n))))) Interesting, I've never seen this style of let before. I believe it's Scheme-only.

Dec 7, 2025 at 16:00

I'm trying to decide what program I should show on the home page of my PL. Hello World is too simple to show much syntax. Fibonacci is OK but the reader may not know what print(fib(10)) should show. Maybe print(greet("World")) is better? It gives you a function definition at least.

Sep 2, 2024 at 23:29

It's so strange that we talk about languages being slow, and have done for years. Computer performance has increased so much in this time. https://hbfs.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/is-python-slow/ (shared on HN in 2009) discusses Python being slow. My underpowered Thinkpad has 20x the single-threaded performance! https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/73vs3766/AMD-Athlon-64-4000+-vs-AMD-Ryzen-5-PRO-4650U Maybe *relative* performance of languages matters more?

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Aug 6, 2024 at 07:23

Individuals and interactions over processes and tools => Competence trumps process Working software over comprehensive documentation => Minimize time from program launch to deployment of simplest useful functionality I really like the DoD's phrasings of classic agile maxims:

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