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It Is What It Is (and Nothing Else)

by ggr2342 on 6/13/23, 4:41 AM with 1 comments

  • by marssaxman on 6/13/23, 5:16 AM

    This is the kind of pedantic idealism which motivated me to specifically (spitefully!) forbid explicit recursion last time I designed a general-purpose programming language. Such formalisms may well be beautiful ideas, but we live in a world of actual machines and practical problems. Stacks are real and sufficiently clever compilers do not exist.