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Thank you so much for finding those! Despite the promising description, the language design looks pretty... quirky.

• nmz 3y ago
  I don't know about quirky, back when I first found out about it, it was surprising that I could read it without having written a single line of code on it. That's damn impressive. To me, its type system and parsing nature are one of a kind, to be able to label everything as what it is [money!] is $12.53 [tuple!] is 5.5.5.5 [date!] is 16-Jul-2023/21:00:17 means the parser immediately parses and type checks everything, all while looking as human readable as possible.
  • troupo 3y ago
    You can still type check those, and have a fast compiler, and not rely on a restricted set of hardcoded non-extendable types.
    • nmz 3y ago
      Do tell, I'm sure you're right, AFAIK, only forth seems to embed a parser in its compiler.
• bradrn 3y ago
  It’s homoiconic, so the quirkiness serves very similar goals to, say, Lisp.