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What would be awesome would be if Julia had an allowed alternate syntax that happened to look exactly like Lisp. Then the world really would be a better place.

What would be awesome would be if Julia had an allowed alternate syntax that happened to look exactly like Lisp. Then the world really would be a better place. (Yeah yeah, see my comments elsewhere in this thread!)

forgotpwd16 4y ago
Can be argued that it wouldn't have been as popular had it been a parentheses spaghetti.
- abrax3141 4y ago
  Although I’m sure you’re right about that, to us lispers, your Algol-based languages are comma, bracket, braces, semicolon, sometimes-infix-sometimes-not, indentation, newline, end-statement spaghetti. :-)
rpmuller 4y ago
You mean like https://github.com/swadey/LispSyntax.jl https://github.com/swadey/LispSyntax.jl ?
- abrax3141 4y ago
  I propose the word “gitiot” for an idiot who posts a “there oughta be…” without googling it first. (I can’t figure out how I missed this. I’ve been in a “lisp on the one hand and Julia on the other” bubble for years. It simply never occurred to me to look for this, and it never crossed my desktop. Gitiot!!)
  - mindB 4y ago
    To be fair to yourself, LispSyntax.jl is more of a proof of concept than something that anyone would want to actually do significant coding in as can be seen by the TODO list in the README[1]. It also hasn't seen any active development in several years. [1] https://github.com/swadey/LispSyntax.jl https://github.com/swadey/LispSyntax.jl
    - abrax3141 4y ago
      Just tried it; sorta works; the most basic examples run, but the repl is broken; probably designed for an older version of Julia; I'll see what I can do with it. Anyway, thanks!
      - ChrisRackauckas 4y ago
        The REPL had a patch, https://github.com/swadey/LispSyntax.jl/issues/36 https://github.com/swadey/LispSyntax.jl/issues/36, but for some reason it didn't get released 3 years ago when the patch was actually created.
  - rpmuller 4y ago
    I had been intrigued by Lisp for years, but it was Julia's roots in Lisp that finally got me to explore the Lisp languages. I actually haven't used LispSyntax.jl, but it's close to what I'd like to have in a language.
DNF2 4y ago
It _does_!

forgotpwd16 4y ago

Can be argued that it wouldn't have been as popular had it been a parentheses spaghetti.

abrax3141 4y ago
Although I’m sure you’re right about that, to us lispers, your Algol-based languages are comma, bracket, braces, semicolon, sometimes-infix-sometimes-not, indentation, newline, end-statement spaghetti. :-)

rpmuller 4y ago

You mean like https://github.com/swadey/LispSyntax.jl https://github.com/swadey/LispSyntax.jl ?

abrax3141 4y ago
I propose the word “gitiot” for an idiot who posts a “there oughta be…” without googling it first. (I can’t figure out how I missed this. I’ve been in a “lisp on the one hand and Julia on the other” bubble for years. It simply never occurred to me to look for this, and it never crossed my desktop. Gitiot!!)
- mindB 4y ago
  To be fair to yourself, LispSyntax.jl is more of a proof of concept than something that anyone would want to actually do significant coding in as can be seen by the TODO list in the README[1]. It also hasn't seen any active development in several years. [1] https://github.com/swadey/LispSyntax.jl https://github.com/swadey/LispSyntax.jl
  - abrax3141 4y ago
    Just tried it; sorta works; the most basic examples run, but the repl is broken; probably designed for an older version of Julia; I'll see what I can do with it. Anyway, thanks!
    - ChrisRackauckas 4y ago
      The REPL had a patch, https://github.com/swadey/LispSyntax.jl/issues/36 https://github.com/swadey/LispSyntax.jl/issues/36, but for some reason it didn't get released 3 years ago when the patch was actually created.
- rpmuller 4y ago
  I had been intrigued by Lisp for years, but it was Julia's roots in Lisp that finally got me to explore the Lisp languages. I actually haven't used LispSyntax.jl, but it's close to what I'd like to have in a language.

DNF2 4y ago

It _does_!