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The Siren Song of Little Languages


programming, language design, and human factors

They lack breathless blog posts exclaiming how much nicer they are to use. Sometimes a usable language struggles simply because it’s too much fun to write your own. In the Lisp family, Clojure and Racket seem to have reached a size threshold where newcomers are happy downloading the canonical implementation.

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