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1 point by ryantmulligan 6165 days ago | link | parent

yay, a benevolent dictatorship.


2 points by Xichekolas 6165 days ago | link

Well... it is the best kind of dictatorship...

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6 points by ryantmulligan 6165 days ago | link

yea. I guess that 'yay' sounded sarcastic. It wasn't. All of the best languages I know of are benevolent dictatorships.

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2 points by kennytilton 6165 days ago | link

I don't know, look at how GvR treats lambda: a weak version and he still tried to back it out of the language at one point. Even when benevolent the judgment can stumble -- hell, McCarthy still does not like sexprs! :) The good thing about Arc is that it has decent macros, so not even PG can dictate to users -- we'll just MAC an end run. :)

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