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		andai 3 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Fun Extending the C Preprocessor It's always bothered me that programming languages aren't programmable. Well, I keep hearing that Lisp is, but I haven't put much effort into it. (I'd need a Lisp that runs in the browser, for starters!) Maybe I should take another look... Or maybe I wish the VM was programmable. "Warn me when this type of operation takes place", or "Print the name of every function before it is invoked", etc. I end up just copy-pasting my own temporary statements all over the program.
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FuckButtons 3 days ago [–]

>(I'd need a Lisp that runs in the browser, for starters!)

We would be in a very different world if Netscape’s exec team had let Brendan Eich just use scheme as he had planned to.

kazinator 3 days ago | [–]

Block scoped let would have been there from the start, for one thing, rather than nearly two decades of function scoped var.

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