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Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 21:21:51 +0200
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On 09.09.2015 21:00, Chris Angelico wrote:
> Suppose it's possible, somehow, to design the perfect language. (It
> isn't, because the best language for a job depends on the job, but
> suppose it for the nonce.) It is simultaneously more readable than
> Python, more ugly than Perl, more functional than Haskell, and
> compiles to lower level code than C does. The compiler's/interpreter's
> internals are a bug-free demonstration of utter code beauty, and you
> no longer have reason to use any other programming language, because
> this one is the ultimate.

That sounds boring, right? ;)

Best,
Sven