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		pjc50 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mostly dead influential programming languages (202... The 5 -> 6 transition took out a lot of its momentum, and it was gradually eclipsed by two other dynamic weakly typed languages which were less alarming to read: Python and Javascript.

AnimalMuppet 5 months ago | [–]

"Less alarming to read". Sir, that is beautifully said.

reddit_clone 5 months ago | [–]

Sad thing is Perl6/Raku is a nice kitchen-sync language with some pretty sophisticated constructs!

Unfortunately it has no mind-share.

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