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Is the Sussman...

Name: Anonymous 2014-11-22 13:13

...coming up with a new programming language?
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/propagators/
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/We-Really-Dont-Know-How-To-Compute
"I'm at the Strange Loop conference and Gerald Sussman said that all languages are obsolete but called Haskell "the most advanced obsolete language he knows". That's kind of a compliment I guess." - deech

Name: Cudder !MhMRSATORI 2014-11-22 14:09

It incorporates explicit structure to support the integration of redundant pieces and subsystems that solve problems in several different ways.
What the bloody bollocks!? Intentionally creating bloat?

Fortunately it seems far less scary if you read the rest of it. Just like SICP, this is pure mental masturbation. All he did was reinvented lazy evaluation and made it a little more explicit.

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