When writing programs in Basic (I'm teaching it to my son), I find I want to put a lot more comments in the code. The comments are roughly English translations of the program I'd write in a powerful language, and my source code is roughly the resulting object code.
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Replying to @paulg
We all know that the platonic form of this powerful language is the Wolfram Language. It's still a Lisp, of course, but it has being extended by a benevolent maniac who's seriously trying to shove the entire conceptual universe of our civilization into the standard library.
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If Wolfram could use LLVM as a backend then we'd be closer to this ideal. I feel that term-rewriting systems have too low performance ceilings for many applications. And you don't need the full term-rewriting capability for everything.
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I don't understand why term rewriting cannot be made efficient. Ultimately, the question is how many watts of determinism we can suck from the substrate. The main issue might be that Wolfram guards his language like his exocortex. He'd rather not sell any of it.
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