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		dragonbonheur on Nov 9, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Pyret: A new programming language from the creator... Those "new" languages keep looking more and more like BASIC.

gosub on Nov 9, 2013 [–]

We should have been using very different dialects of BASIC, since I can't remember mine having algebraic data types, pattern matching, integrated testing, first class functions, high order functions and bignums.

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