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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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oh christ, that’s worth its own thread if you’d like to post one
the original thread for this one had 4 points and 0 comments at the time so I didn’t link it, but I probably should have in case it picked up. I’ll try and find it again
my mistake, there’s gold in the orange site thread
e: ah, we found it around the same time!
Yes that's what a spec means. Like wow I can write
puts("Hello, world!")
and it does the same thing on every ANSI C compiler, how novel!this is an incredibly bad idea for security of course, and is in any case is a garbage version of what javascript VMs already do successfully (much to javascript’s detriment, in some cases)
Dev is asked why it's called "Plunder"
TBH this is the first time I've heard of a Scheme named after the notorious Soviet dictator. What's next, a Lisp called Hitler?
it’s weird that they omitted the historical MIT projects that led to scheme (PLANNER, Conniver, SCHEME(r, they ran into a filename length limit when implementing)) but found time to mention an obscure Lisp with no impact that stopped updating 16 years ago
maybe cause in the actual historical context of Lisp-1 names, “plunder” doesn’t even fit the pattern