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Most programming languages would be better characterized as tree structures than text, being only obscured by unclear (but no less rigid) syntax.
by zokier 6y ago
Most programming languages would be better characterized as tree structures than text, being only obscured by unclear (but no less rigid) syntax.
- goatlover 6y agoSo Lisp? You still type it in as text.
- user-the-name 6y agoNearly every language will be processed as an AST, not as text. Text is just a serialisation format for the AST. For some reason we still insist on editing the serialisation format instead of the actual data representation.