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   clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 22-Apr-2023 01:33:05 JST clacke

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   • Ramsey Nasser
   @csepp @nasser Or a severely hampered LEGO language.
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     Csepp ? (csepp@merveilles.town)'s status on Saturday, 22-Apr-2023 01:33:06 JST Csepp ?

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     @nasser I'd say lack of generics is a big indicator of a clay language.

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     Ramsey Nasser (nasser@merveilles.town)'s status on Saturday, 22-Apr-2023 01:33:07 JST Ramsey Nasser

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     whats clay and whats legos? my original thought was dynamic types and static types (i am porting clojure code to c#) but unsafe code (eg memory and pointer shenanigans) and safe code (eg with static and runtime checks) could also work.

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     Ramsey Nasser (nasser@merveilles.town)'s status on Saturday, 22-Apr-2023 01:33:08 JST Ramsey Nasser

     incomplete thought: some programming is like building with clay and some programming is like building with legos. both great to build with in different ways!

     you can do anything with clay, its a strict superset of what you can do with legos. but it gets difficult to build something very big out of just clay unless youre very good.

     if what you are doing fits the lego aesthetic then its nice to build with little blocks and hear the pieces go click and know theyre going to stay put.