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Can Your Programming Language Do This? - Joel on Software

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2008-11-22T01:28:23.000Z
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"I hope you're convinced, by now, that programming languages with first-class functions let you find more opportunities for abstraction, which means your code is smaller, tighter, more reusable, and more scalable."

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