Comment on A Bit of Heresy: Functional Languages are OverratedparentComments−knieveltech16yJava (being rife with academic shitheadery itself) may not have been the best choice if you're trying to suggest the author doesn't have a point.−yummyfajitas16yI picked Java because a) I know where to find it, b) the author mentions Java positively and c) the C++ standard costs $18.Any formal language spec will look ugly and hard to read. That's just the nature of formal specs.−sprout16yR5RS is a pretty light read.
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Java (being rife with academic shitheadery itself) may not have been the best choice if you're trying to suggest the author doesn't have a point.
I picked Java because a) I know where to find it, b) the author mentions Java positively and c) the C++ standard costs $18.
Any formal language spec will look ugly and hard to read. That's just the nature of formal specs.
R5RS is a pretty light read.