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>I'm a Lisper (and Pythoner) (...) It boggles my mind that Lispers haven't taken that problem seriously. I have taken it very seriously and have been working on

>I'm a Lisper (and Pythoner) (...) It boggles my mind that Lispers haven't taken that problem seriously. I have taken it very seriously and have been working on it for years. I just started publishing my results. http://breckyunits.com/the-flaw-in-lisp.html http://breckyunits.com/the-flaw-in-lisp.html Honestly, there is no flaw in the parentheses. You just need to write more Lisp. The parentheses are one of the best things in Lisp.

breck 9y ago
Disagree. The parens are a missed opportunity. If you use geometry instead, you gain extraordinary new powers of analyzing and editing large programs in 2 and 3 dimensions. Not possible with the parens. The benefits still are not obvious but we're working on publishing more data and tools
- flavio81 9y ago
  Well, then have fun programming in Befunge, exactly the programming language that will fullfill your bidimensional desires.
  - breck 9y ago
    Sadly, I've worked with some code bases before that may have been more fun to work on if they were in Befunge.