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Meet Lux, A New Lisp-like Language (javaworld.com)
Drawing on Haskell, Clojure, and ML, the new Lux language first targeted the Java Virtual Machine, but will be a universal, cross-platform language. An anonymous reader quotes JavaWorld:
Currently in an 0.5 beta release, Lux claims that while it implements features common to Lisp-like languages, such as macros, they're more flexible and powerful in Lux... [W]hereas Clojure is dynamically typed, as many Lisp-like languages have been, Lux is statically typed to reduce bugs and enhance performance. Lux also lets programmers create new types programmatically, which provides some of the flexibility found in dynamically typed languages. The functional language Haskell has type classes, but Lux is intended to be less constraining. Getting around any constraints can be done natively to the language, not via hacks in the type system.
There's a a 16-chapter book about the language on GitHub.
There's a a 16-chapter book about the language on GitHub.
He's got the right and the left to pee on each other now. Much more entertaining and he doesn't have to pay for it.
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
I don't even think I care one way or the other. Although why he'd go all the way to Moscow for that when he could have the same experience in NYC I don't know. Or care. Of all the crazy things he's been accused of this is probably the least important.
Funny thing is, he's so far out there, and he lies so regularly, that nothing he says on this matters. He can deny till he's blue in the face and who would believe him?
I can see why he's attracted to Eastern European/Russian women. The trophy wife he's got now is awesome. I still don't get what difference it makes about the shower party. It's not my thing but the way the world is now that's actually pretty tame.