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The extreme amounts of whitespace and text zoom makes it extremely difficult to get a sense of the language. After going to the intro, then to a chapter, then
by mjburgess 5y ago
The extreme amounts of whitespace and text zoom makes it extremely difficult to get a sense of the language.
After going to the intro, then to a chapter, then zooming to 67%... I can almost browse through some code examples and see the language. But even here, each example has extraordinary amounts of whitespace.
There needs to be a single page with substantive lines of code, at c. 67% zoom, which shows off simple-to-advanced features in one go.
- moeris 5y agoLike most array programming languages, they center on the repl. It's not that the snippets have excess whitespace, it's that they're expressions being evaluated, one after the other. http://learningj.com http://learningj.com is similar. At least with LearningJ, the examples tend to be short because the language is more terse than others. Reading J is more like reading math than a programming language. And so the snippets tend to be smaller. Nial may be similar.
- mjburgess 5y agoI use scala, python, etc. often -- they have terse repl output. EDIT: https://imgur.com/a/Qs1ukGM https://imgur.com/a/Qs1ukGM 100%, 67% zoom, python comparison (similar examples)
- bradrn 5y agoI find this comment odd. It looks fine to me: https://imgur.com/5fW1OON https://imgur.com/5fW1OON
- mjburgess 5y agohttps://imgur.com/a/Qs1ukGM https://imgur.com/a/Qs1ukGM 100%, 67% zoom, python comparison (similar examples)