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You know the language has potential when the top comments on HN are all about syntax. To generate more talking points, somebody ought to write an inverse of du
by jxy 7y ago
You know the language has potential when the top comments on HN are all about syntax.
To generate more talking points, somebody ought to write an inverse of dumpLisp: https://nim-lang.org/docs/macros.html#dumpLisp.m%2Cuntyped https://nim-lang.org/docs/macros.html#dumpLisp.m%2Cuntyped
- jimws 7y agoI am confused if you this is an honest opinion or if you are saying with a touch of sarcasm. If it is the latter, a winking smiley or "</sarcasm>" or "/s" would have been nice to avoid triggering Poe's Law. In my honest opinion, discussion on syntax is a distraction. One of the reasons I like Lisp/Clojure is that there is very little syntax. I can just focus on my problem and writing good code.
- PMunch 7y agoI think he meant that if the worst thing people can say about a language is that it has slightly quirky syntax it must've done a lot of things right.
- whateveracct 7y agoI don't think it speaks to potential - it's just Wadler's Law ;)