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Subject: Re: on Perl
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2024 14:49:26 -0000 (UTC)
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On Tue, 16 Apr 2024 10:58:49 -0000 (UTC)
Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> wrote:
>the FreeBSD boot loader, another constrained environment.  In the
>end Forth proved too unpopular, few people touched it, and it is
>being replaced with Lua now.

So moving from one language hardly anyone uses to another that hardly anyone
uses. You can't deny the consistency.