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Jonathan Blow

On The Metal

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Using Unix to Prototype a Complex Programming Language

One-liners are great for ad hoc prototyping as long as what you're doing like is expressible as grub or something. You want your data to be well defined yeah and structured so that when you're de-referencing data that it's the right type. We've got two levels of redundancy that are doing the same thing why like get rid of that? If you want a version of a language that just doesn't type check and use that for your crappy spell then i think you we already have it.

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