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by diimdeep 362 days ago
I think academic programming language research is reeks of fraud and uselessness. Prove me wrong.
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kccqzy 362 days ago
A lot of features you take granted in new languages come from academic programming language research. Generics in Java for example came from GJ, an academic programming language research project headed by academics including Philip Wadler.
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