@MikeWithAHotDog@htmx_org Let's see what Guy Steele had to say on the design of Java and the JVM:
"We were not out to win over the Lisp programmers; we were after the C++ programmers. We managed to drag a lot of them about halfway to Lisp."
Trust the plan
@valigo In the end everything is just bytes somewhere and they have no type, they don't judge :)
Neat thing about pre-Scheme is you still get all the meta programming capabilities of Scheme, comptime eval, but emit C with no runtime.
And you can emulate it as a library to debug, why not
@lemire Or all those functions are making the same mistakes that confuse beginners - mutability and arbitrary syntax and parsing rules. Are they relevant for beginners learning to think algorithmically?
I'd be interested to see how languages like Scheme or the ML family compare.
@tsoding Reminds me of the period at work we used to prank colleagues who left their computers unlocked.
I forgot my computer unlocked with dwm and found them leaning extremely puzzled over it.
@Jonathan_Blow@bztree You could do that with the Clojure port of SICM + the Clerk notebook system, it's like jupyter notebooks but good. Then just like you wanted have a slider for a value plugged into an equation and see the rendered stuff change.