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by Koromix 3589 days ago
I don't consider the Ruby ecosystem to be a good example of much. Idiomatic Ruby code is much slower and usually not more maintainable than C++. Actually, it may even be worse thanks to dynamic typing, which makes refactoring much more painful than it already is in large code bases.

Well I guess it's good at making CRUD web sites. Hardly rocket science.
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qwertyuiop924 3589 days ago
Okay then: Lisp.

Tinyclos is a fairly sophisticated implementation of OO and the MOP, written in Scheme.

Its descendants, COOPS, GOOPS, and others, are in most schemes today. Many of them are written in their respective dialect of scheme, with little or no specific compiler support.

SXML allows for writing XML in native scheme syntax.

The anaphoric macros (aif, acond, etc.) are all, well, macros, and thus use metaprogramming principles.

tclOO, [incr tcl], and other OO TCL systems are usually implemented in regular TCL.

Give or take, any large Lisp or Smalltalk codebase takes advantage of dynamic typing, late binding, and some form of metaprogramming.

However, you've made it clear that you hate Ruby, Dynamic Typing, and other such things, as given as much of metaprogramming requires this sort of flexibility, I very much doubt anything I say will convince you that dynamic languages are in any way useful.

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Koromix 3589 days ago
I don't hate them. I've used python more than once, and will continue to do so. And I think it's great teaching material. It's a good scripting language. But I think its drawbacks far outweigh its advantages for large projects.

All your examples are programming gimmicks, and I've yet to see stuff that solves actual hard problems. I'm not interested in programming for programming's sake. I want to use it to make my computer do useful stuff.

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qwertyuiop924 3589 days ago
Gimmicks? Some of them, yes, but CLOS and its descendants are used in Real applications, as are the TCL OO systems. But if you want Real World, I'll give you real world.

Maxima is a descendant of the original MACSYMA, developed at MIT. It is still a usable and viable system, even if it has ageda bit.

Emacs is a popular programmer's text editor written in C and a dialect of lisp.

Both of the above programs are large, useful, and written in an HLL - one particularly amenable to pointer chasing, I might add - and they make use of the variety of abstractions which that HLL provides.

If those aren't modern enough for you, check out some Clojure applications.

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