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This is where I'm at. I don't know if I'll ever get useful software out of it, but I really enjoy the mental challenge. I actually find it a bit of an ugly lang

by anitil 4y ago

This is where I'm at. I don't know if I'll ever get useful software out of it, but I really enjoy the mental challenge. I actually find it a bit of an ugly language to look at (backticks, hanging single quotes etc) but I like how it reveals the underlying structure of problems that I haven't been able too replicate in other languages. Though I'd recommend a youtube channel called 'Low Level Javascript' (really!) which comes close in developing some of their parser combinator library.

toastal 4y ago
Hanging single quotation marks? You mean the ‘prime’ symbol? This comes up a lot in math to generate more variables that need a similar name—that’s why it ends up in Haskell and related languages. It’s not something weird. Granted the ASCII tick/apostrophe is neither the proper symbol for primes nor quotation marks (should be curly), but programmers are reluctant towards Unicode.