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call_cc wrote on May 2, 2020 at 9:45 PM

An observation by John McCarthy

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β-reducing for life

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only MLs (SML, Haskell, OCaml) and Lisps (Scheme, CL, Racket for all 2 people who use that) allowed
- fuck off Hy users, you're just Python lusers
- you too Clojure, you're just shitty Java with more parens and hipsters gave you exposure
no :=, <- or setf allowed
must be able to recite the Y combinator when asked
no rust (lang and game) or JS
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