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Is there evidence regarding PG's theory about powerful languages? (ycombinator.com)
2 points by kinnard 2907 days ago | 1 comment


2 points by kinnard 2906 days ago | link

I found this most salient: "This is totally subjective, but I think we're at a point where the language ecosystem is much more important than the actual language. This was probably not the case when pg was writing software for Viaweb and there wasn't nearly as much FOSS that you could just use. At that point in time the LANGUAGE was probably much more important because there was not a lot of differentiation beyond that. Now, we're at a point where the language isn't as important and the ECOSYSTEM around it is much more powerful that then language itself."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11469790

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