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by e12e 3186 days ago
Because of lisp machines, Smalltalk/the Alto - the popularity of java and the popularity of golang? As well as a disagreement about what "systems programming" means?

But when you can do real-time video processing in an (at the time) young alternative implementation of python[1] - I'm not sure what we're arguing about anymore..?

[1] https://morepypy.blogspot.no/2011/07/realtime-image-processi...