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Paolo Amoroso
@amoroso@oldbytes.space  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

An interesting remark in Josep Bigorra's post on why Scheme can be used for production work:

There’s only one truly universal ecosystem: the C ecosystem. Dynamic language modules are often just bindings to existing C libraries.

https://jointhefreeworld.org/blog/articles/lisps/scheme-and-lisps-are-great-for-production/index.html

#lisp #scheme #clang

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Vassil Nikolov
@vnikolov@ieji.de replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

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There’s only one truly universal ecosystem: the C ecosystem.

Here is my quick and dirty interpretation.

The actual ecosystem of computer programs is the machine language of the architecture they are running on.
Programming in machine language is done in assembly language.
C is (still) the dominant machine-independent assembly language.

NB: this universality excludes the bytecode languages of the JVM etc.

#ComputerProgramming
#ProgrammingLanguages

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Paolo Amoroso
@amoroso@oldbytes.space replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago
@vnikolov That's another good way of putting it.
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