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Ok. What’s a good lisp like language without the embedded parentheses? I know it’s subjective, but I just can’t get past them.
by _hcuq 4y ago
Ok. What’s a good lisp like language without the embedded parentheses? I know it’s subjective, but I just can’t get past them.
- Jtsummers 4y agoDylan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan_(programming_language)
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- borodi 4y agoJulia has many of the features one expects of a lisp. But it has a more "normal" syntax
- pjmlp 4y agoJulia, following on the footsteps of Dylan.
- rscho 4y agoThere is no lisp without s-expressions. To understand why, you should try paredit.
- lispm 4y agoThey often have other parentheses, just in different places and with a different purpose.
- tejtm 4y agoREBOL might scratch that itch, it is "not dead yet" kinda of like how Amiga is not dead yet I gave up on it with the switch to 64bit machines ... but it still holds a warm and fuzzy place in my memories as how I "got" lisp before I even knew what a lisp was. warning free but not even open source [http://www.rebol.com/ http://www.rebol.com/]
- ducktective 4y agoThere is also red-lang, it's successor in geist: https://www.red-lang.org/ https://www.red-lang.org/
- ducktective 4y agoI think homoiconicity and the resulting macro system necessitates s-expressions. I mean how could you devise a "programmable" programming language with ASCII-based syntax in other ways?
- kragen 4y agoprolog forth camlp4 postscript/joy pure/q (aardappel is worth looking at but could hardly be less ascii-based) raku smalltalk
- aredox 4y agoWISP: http://dustycloud.org/blog/wisp-lisp-alternative/ http://dustycloud.org/blog/wisp-lisp-alternative/