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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by DannyB on Thursday March 24 2022, @02:31PM (6 children)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Thursday March 24 2022, @02:31PM (#1231702) Journal

    Maybe this could be amicably settled by porting all of Electron to run on emacs Lisp?

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  • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Wednesday March 30 2022, @06:20AM

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Wednesday March 30 2022, @06:20AM (#1233437) Journal

    Emacs got a vi implementation (several, indeed). That didn't end the vi vs. Emacs battle.

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  • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Wednesday March 30 2022, @02:19PM

    by Freeman (732) on Wednesday March 30 2022, @02:19PM (#1233498) Journal

    Where's the +1 Flamebait option?

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  • (Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Monday April 04 2022, @02:38AM (3 children)

    by hendrikboom (1125) Subscriber Badge on Monday April 04 2022, @02:38AM (#1234664) Homepage Journal

    Isn't there an implementation of Javascript in Scheme?

    • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday April 04 2022, @01:58PM (2 children)

      by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Monday April 04 2022, @01:58PM (#1234755) Journal

      I don't know, but I wouldn't be surprised.

      There is at least one scheme (or partial) implementation [github.com] in JavaScript.

      So at least it can be alternating turtles all the way down.

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      • (Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Monday April 04 2022, @06:27PM (1 child)

        by hendrikboom (1125) Subscriber Badge on Monday April 04 2022, @06:27PM (#1234821) Homepage Journal

        I've been told that the Javascript spec specifies proper tail-recursion, but that common implementations in browsers don't implement this properly.
        So there is at least some awkwardness using Scheme in Javascript.

        • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday April 04 2022, @07:26PM

          by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Monday April 04 2022, @07:26PM (#1234833) Journal

          This brings me back to the Java programming language where Java programmers know that memory is infinite and can never be exhausted.

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