Pliant: with or without OS; has closures, eval; fast as C; embeds perl; worth a look?
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Oct 12, 2008
        

submitted 1 hour ago by Ok, so this is a programming language built for the web. Check. Has eval and closures, embeds perl... strange, but I'll accept it... Looks like python meets c++ meets ML... sure. I get all this, but why? It seems like this is trying to be the best at everything and not really... [read full story]                    

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