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Lisp vs. Go (funcall.blogspot.com)
4 points by eadmund 9 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


Retitled from ‘Lisp vs. golang’ because ‘golang’ instead of ‘Go’ is akin to ‘LISP’ instead of ‘Lisp.’

His substantive comments are generally correct, but I think it’s important to note that Go’s not really meant for clever code like function composition and the like — it’s meant for plodding, straightforward code which is boring and does its job. That’s not a criticism! ‘Code which does its job’ is something that we have far too little of in the world.




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