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		ben509 on Oct 17, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Isn't Functional Programming the Norm? [video] Was it a mistake, though? Languages have to be accessible to their audience, and Javascript caught on because of its relatively gentle learning curve. If SchemeScript hadn't caught on, it might have been that VBScript took over the web.

hyperpallium on Oct 17, 2019 [–]

Insufficiently C-like languages get ignored, according to: http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-m...

doboyy on Oct 17, 2019 | [–]

Language designers and enthusiats will forever be disappointed at how many social and human factors are at play, which coincidentally, is a large part of the motivation for programming languages

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