@samth @littlecalculist 3/ "Once people are hooked on it, take the time to improve it to 90% of the right thing"
@samth @littlecalculist right, so if you don't want to get smoked you need to understand this.
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@wycats@littlecalculist I don't follow. -
@samth@littlecalculist C will beat your pants off if you don't adopt its tactics. The original essay was telling this to lispers. -
@wycats@littlecalculist Plenty of things win without those tactics. Java is an example, to pick something different. Or SSL. Or SQL. -
@samth@littlecalculist SQL is so totally WiB. Central planning BiB almost never succeeds. Java shipped without generics. -
@samth@littlecalculist Java as BiB tech at 1.0 is astonishing - clearly limited and designed to spread like virus.
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