"Clarity is a list processing (LISP) language, as such it is not compiled." #Triggered
"Omitting compilation prevents the possibility of error or bugs introduced at the compiler level." #NextLevelBullshit
Of course, there are Lisp compilers, and semantic errors in interpreters.
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Replying to @Ngnghm
Yeah bad arguments... What's likely true is that definitional (and likely slow) Interpreters are easier to get right than compilers...
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Replying to @Blaisorblade
I'll argue the opposite: definitional interpreters, like "shotgun parsers", often mix many levels of structure, miss some validation and mistakenly break abstraction #LangSec. Yay definitional compilers.
Now if only there were good implementations of Futamura projections…
12:52 PM - 1 Jul 2019
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