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mleku | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 this is why simpler languages are better
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Vitor Pamplona | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 agreed
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mleku | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 IMO, simplest language means C, or Go

Go is more literal... the hardest part for me doing a port of an algorithm from C to Go was ducktyping
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Vitor Pamplona | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 They are simple enough...
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mleku | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 simplicity is way undervalued
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hodlbod | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 lisp is the simplest language
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atyh | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 (yes (it is))