Would a language without functions, classes or methods be possible? Only making binaries stream to each other. Simpler than shell
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@hal9zillion haha, good point. Maybe the better question is: would it be useful? Is there a place for language that only connects others?
@hal9zillion kinda digging the nix paradigm where your OS becomes scriptable; thinking of smth like resource allocation + piping
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@yoshuawuyts Totally - those core nix ideas were remarkably insightful. Feels like we are often "rediscovering" the Unix philosophy today. -
@hal9zillion hah, I reckon there's a lot of swinging between complex and simple; if you dig deep enough there's good ideas in everything
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