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Syntax to me is superficial. What APL/J/K are doing is much deeper: programs are short sequences of composable operators.
by gruseom 16y ago
Syntax to me is superficial. What APL/J/K are doing is much deeper: programs are short sequences of composable operators.
- ldh 16y agoI get your point, but syntax ceases to be superficial if it prevents you from expressing what you want to say cleanly. As a daytime Java programmer, discovering the freedom from syntax that Lisps allow you has been revelatory.
- gruseom 16y agoI quite agree. It was revelatory for me in the same way.
- forkandwait 16y agoMath invented composable functions (sin(sqrt(blah)) -- extending it to operators is fun, but not really very important. Oh -- I would respectfully hazard that syntax for you (and for me!) is no more for superficial than the blue eye shadow on the girl in my 10th grade English class, if you get my drift. ;)