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		brudgers on July 16, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: To Ruby from Python Genuinely curious, would Ruby be your desert-island-with-only-one-language language? If not, what would your language be? Of course, you could - at least in theory - take any language and implement some other in it...so I guess maybe there’s a question of is it easier to write Lisp in Ruby or Python in Lisp, etc.?

mark_l_watson on July 16, 2022 | [–]

That would be Common Lisp.

x86x87 on July 16, 2022 | [–]

probably you would want C on a desert island. you could write your own ruby or python or anything in it.

xigoi on July 17, 2022 | [–]

You could also write C in Ruby, so I'm not sure how that's relevant.

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