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   寮 (ryo@social.076.moe)'s status on Monday, 26-Dec-2022 11:03:57 JST 寮

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   Basically, to me it's PHP for web-based stuff, and C for desktop and server stuff, and I hope soon games too.
   Shell scripting for automating shit.
   
   Though I have yet to find any benefit of using Lisp over whatever the above can already do.
   But yes, 99% of the languages are all memes, they only exist because soydevs can't be bothered learning PHP, HTML, and CSS the right way, or learning C at all.
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     Terminal Autism (terminalautism@social.076.moe)'s status on Monday, 26-Dec-2022 11:03:58 JST Terminal Autism
     For real, though, I do not see the point of languages other than Lisp and C. Everything but that and very niche languages is just bad C, and a meme language. How many times can they make C-but-worse?
     
     I don't see the point of languages that are exclusively high-level either, when languages like Lisp and Forth have both been able to go from the lowest to the highest level (higher level than any scripting language) all in one language.
     
     Taking that into consideration, why do scripting languages even exist? They make no sense. One language could do it all, and do it faster, and it has been done before. TempleOS is another example. Some of the OS is compiled AOT, but a lot is compiled JIT, and HolyC is the command line itself, there is no shell language and there are no scripting languages. So it has been done even with C, not just with Lisp.
     
     We could have that, but no, people would rather invent a trillion languages that are all C but bloated, and generally slow too. What's the point?