• sus@programming.dev
      9·
      3 days ago

      I think the problems there are exacerbated a lot by over-eager type coercion and other crappy design decisions inherited from almost 30 years ago

      • barsoap@lemm.ee
        4·
        3 days ago

        Yep lua and lisp/scheme are also unityped and not even close to as broken. All are remarkably similar languages, theory-wise.

        …also something something Guido not getting tail call elimination and people sending him copies of the wizard book. It’s been a while.

        (And, yes, lua does proper tail calls).