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Including the the inventor himself(look up M-expressions)! Part 2 is spent wailing in misery that not all languages use the clearly superior S-expression synta
by mtlmtlmtlmtl 4y ago
Including the the inventor himself(look up M-expressions)!
Part 2 is spent wailing in misery that not all languages use the clearly superior S-expression syntax
Part 3 is spent making a macro to write your favourite language as S-expressions, from a lisp environment.
Finally, part 4 is accepting that we can't have nice things.
- rakoo 4y agoAka the 5 stages of grief
- Akronymus 4y agoPart 5 is writing macros to make certain things parens free
- giancarlostoro 4y agoCorrect me if I'm wrong but isn't that part of what Arc did? I don't recall specifics. I'm also reminded of the old PHP hack of using arrays as an ORM for queries.
- munk-a 4y agoPart 6 is realizing the error of your ways and adding macros to stuff even more parenthesis in LISP.
- hestefisk 4y agoPart 7 is rewriting the whole thing in Perl.