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		Everyone stop implementing programming languages, right now It's been solved (scientopia.org)
		1 point by setra on Feb 23, 2017 \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 2 comments

vgy7ujm on Feb 23, 2017 [–]

It was solved back when Larry Wall introduced the world to Perl.

qbrass on Feb 24, 2017 | [–]

It was solved with ALGOL, but everyone wants to implement their own variation of it.

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