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by bombcar 1938 days ago
Nowadays we don’t just rewrite from scratch - we create entirely new languages to rewrite IN.
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ido 1938 days ago
Actually Joel did that too! Some visual-basic inspired language if I recall correctly.
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throwawayboise 1937 days ago
IIRC he did that to support something that wasn't otherwise possible at the time, having the same code base run in ASP and PHP (i.e. Windows and Linux).
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