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It's Scheme s-expressions. Parsers for it have existed for it longer than C or Unix have existed (Scheme came out in 1970, First Edition Unix in 1971), let alon
by cyphar 9y ago
It's Scheme s-expressions. Parsers for it have existed for it longer than C or Unix have existed (Scheme came out in 1970, First Edition Unix in 1971), let alone Lisp parsers which have existed for even longer.
EDIT: Complaining about downvotes and then going on a tirade about how Lisp users are cave-dwellers is not constructive. Personally I think your argument was a valid concern (and I just went to try to find a Scheme parser in Python to help you), but you're not helping your case.
Also, like it or not, but both of the most widely-used editors (emacs and vim) both have turing-complete "configuration" languages. By your statements, that would make the majority of programmers academic cave-dwellers (oh wait... :P).
- eriknstr 9y ago> both of the most widely-used editors (emacs and vim) https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2017#technology-most-popular-developer-environments-by-occupation https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2017#technology-mo... If you include full-blown IDEs in your definition of editor (which I think you should), Visual Studio was the most widely used editor among all the 19,772 people that responded to this question in the Stack Overflow Developer survey 2017. Notepad++ was the second-most popular editor. Sublime Text was the third-most popular editor. Vim was the fourth-most popular editor. Visual Studio Code, IntelliJ, Atom, Eclipse, Android Studio, PHPStorm, Xcode, NetBeans and PyCharm followed. Emacs was the 14th-most popular editor.
- cyphar 9y agoThe point still stands if you substitute "both" with "two". I admit that I assumed Emacs and Vim were higher in the "leaderboard" (and I'm not sure StackOverflow is the best place to sample developers) but the point stands regardless.