ColdFusion and Visual Basic!https://twitter.com/SoSplush/status/1292116859203063809 …
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Learning to do web stuff with VB and ColdFusion was good practice for getting mocked for using Perl and PHP later on. Visual Basic especially had a super interesting developer community around it. The languages that are the best on-ramps for beginners get made fun of the most
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I think the greatest insight Larry Wall ever had is that a computer language also includes the community around it. The right community can keep a bad language afloat, or it can be a boat anchor around the neck of the most elegant language, like happened with Lisp
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do you think clojure / cognitect has a real shot at fixing this for lisp?
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I am completely out of my depth here. I would refer all substantive lispy questions to my friend @lemonodor
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