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1. pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist: (p@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 07-Jan-2023 17:43:00 JST pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist:

   • Trade Minister Tagomi
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   > It did what I wanted, anyway.
   
   Yeah, not my favorite language, but I can say that the times I have had to write it, nothing unpredictable or counterintuitive happened, unlike with Perl.
   
   > I used Perl too, but it always seemed somehow sloppier, easier to wander down strange dark paths.
   
   I don't think you can write Perl without darkness.
   
   > But then tbh I never did much like Lisp, either. I guess C ruined me for anything other than lineal descendents.
   
   Lisp is pretty fun, but I understand what you mean: C's nice, really nice.
   
   > The 'advancing' html spec seems almost as if was designed by Big Tech companies staffed substantially by 'ex'-intelligence officers to make it easy to monitor everything one does, while stealing one's data. But that would never happen.
   
   Almost completely open. They created the "Defense Innovation Advisory Board" at the Pentagon for Eric Schmidt to run.
   
   > But not Java.
   
   Not my favorite VM.
   • Trade Minister Tagomi (trademinister@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 07-Jan-2023 17:43:00 JST Trade Minister Tagomi

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     • Trade Minister Tagomi
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     @TradeMinister
     
     
     > I don't think you can write Perl without darkness.
     
     It was OK for making stuff web designers did back then, which was mostly painting pretty pictures. But I tried to write a miniature web server in it, wandered off into using complex content-addressed arrays or something, never could get it working.
     
     >> But then tbh I never did much like Lisp, either. I guess C ruined me for anything other than lineal descendents.
     
     > Lisp is pretty fun, but I understand what you mean: C's nice, really nice.
     
     Also, my mind has specialized hardware or something that was a perfect fit with C and firmware/OS code, and even moreso microcode, and pretty useless at big sweeping masses of code like gcc, and languages like lisp. Same hardware made my father really really good at NMR/NQR back when you had to build the gadgetry yourself.
     
     > Almost completely open. They created the "Defense Innovation Advisory Board" at the Pentagon for Eric Schmidt to run.
     
     Reminds me of the Defense Policy Board, which was Paul Wolfowitz's fiefdom to use to betray us into attacking Iraq for Israel in 2003, for which service he got the World Bank.
     
     > But not Java.
     
     > Not my favorite VM.
     
     I wonder if gcc's RTL could be executed by a VM. Nothing like that shows up in a search, so maybe it's not doable, or a good idea.