devilish666@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 3 months agoYup...i can confirm thatlemmy.worldimagemessage-square43fedilinkarrow-up1270arrow-down155
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minus-squaresus@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·3 months agoI think the problems there are exacerbated a lot by over-eager type coercion and other crappy design decisions inherited from almost 30 years ago
minus-squarebarsoap@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up5·3 months agoYep lua and lisp/scheme are also unityped and not even close to as broken. All are remarkably similar languages, theory-wise. …also something something Guido not getting tail call elimination and people sending him copies of the wizard book. It’s been a while. (And, yes, lua does proper tail calls).
I think the problems there are exacerbated a lot by over-eager type coercion and other crappy design decisions inherited from almost 30 years ago
Yep lua and lisp/scheme are also unityped and not even close to as broken. All are remarkably similar languages, theory-wise.
…also something something Guido not getting tail call elimination and people sending him copies of the wizard book. It’s been a while.
(And, yes, lua does proper tail calls).