2021-05-28

Xah Lee
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BartholomewJS
​Greetings!

BartholomewJS
​@Xah Lee Can you show examples how e.g. Python's syntax is blocking true functional programming from happening?

Xah Lee
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Dion Bridger
​guido van rossum is an anti fp zealot

Nawaf
​Hi Xah Lee

Dion Bridger
​think xah has an article about pythons broken lambda

Nawaf
​I have a question, what makes you switch to Windows? Please execute my ignorance if you have mentioned that before.

Dion Bridger
​python also lacks tail recursion

Dion Bridger
​no strong typing

Dion Bridger
​no macros

breaktheloop
​Brendan Eich

pancreasnou
​brendan eich

breaktheloop
​is JavaScript creator

pancreasnou
​Rich Hickey talks are really good, very inspiring

breaktheloop
​cool @pancreasnou, I'll check them out

Ernests Kuzņecovs
​Did mathematica succeed as a tool to understand mathematics?

Dion Bridger
​do you have opinions on Wolfram Physics?

Dion Bridger
​got the answer there :P

The Magpie
​hey xah, long time no see. Any tips on how to learn fp I don't have a strong math background

ian
​i want to get into theoretical cs, i already read this book,but do you reccomend any particular authors or books to further my studies?

Dion Bridger
​ian

Dion Bridger
​Knuth

Dion Bridger
​immutability

The Magpie
​immutable

Ernests Kuzņecovs
​Immutable

drgbennett
​immutable immutability

Dion Bridger
​guido wanted to force python programs to be understood by people who only know algol family langs like C

Dion Bridger
​and Java

EIΣ
​privet(hi)

Farzin Firouzi
​@Xah Lee are you upset that you invested so much time in a dying programming language, lisp/elisp?

EIΣ
​isn't java introduced a lot of good things to industry world? garbage collection, portability, jit

Ernests Kuzņecovs
​Have you ever covered type systems? They seem to be very important from my perspective but I never see you talk about it. (I'm a haskell fanatic BTW)

Dion Bridger
​GC was introduced by LISP

Ernests Kuzņecovs
​Haskell is on the rise in the industry I think (lately a lot of Haskll job openeings)

EIΣ
​in a single language

EIΣ
​platform*

Dion Bridger
​I think guido broke lambda on purpose

Dion Bridger
​to prevent code that looks "weird" ( I.e. not imperative)

EIΣ
​🤣🤣

Jack Sharp
​Hello Mr. Lee

Dion Bridger
​would have been better with no lambda than a broken 1

Ernests Kuzņecovs
​lambda calculus is turning complete or something like that

Dion Bridger
​pythons lack of strong typing is its worst problem imo

Dion Bridger
​u used to mock java

Dion Bridger
​I*

Dion Bridger
​but admit easier to get things right on first try in java

Avindra G
​lol

Rochus
​Brandon Eich

Avindra G
​brendan

Rochus
​oops

EIΣ
​what do you think about fate of StandartML. Why do we need OCaml and Scala and don't stay with SML

EIΣ
​d*

EIΣ
​and also why SML family isn't widely used

Oleg Marakhovsky
​Cool shirt Xah!

Gilberto
​Are you going to do an autohotkey tutotial for your windows computer?

Avindra G
​Linux gaming a lot easier nowadays. If your game is on Steam, Steam Proton works fine. I play read dead 2 (2018) no problem on Linux

Dion Bridger
​Xah channeling Edsgar Dijkstra

Dion Bridger
​Xah do you think programs should be proven correct?

BartholomewJS
​@Xah Lee I feel exactly the way about society and its SJWilization.

Wannabe Rhetor
​what the hell is "comp lang perving"

EIΣ
​no yaml pls

Laurent Siksous
​My punch cards are OK

Xah Lee
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