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		anonzzzies on Oct 27, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Should JavaScript be split into two languages? Besides his nick, was he smug? He just noted that Lisp(likes) solve this problem for some version of 'solve' with the numerical tower. The implementations don't (usually; I am not aware of any) mix exact and inexact as that would be foolish obviously.

xscott on Oct 27, 2024 [–]

> Besides his nick, was he smug?

Saying, "That's nice." is a cliche condescension. You're free to disagree, but I think his intent was clear.

anonzzzies on Oct 27, 2024 | [–]

Ah, I did not read that into it. But guess that might be what he was doing.

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