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It's weird to have a Lisp fanboy gushing about parentheses without seemingly knowing about M-exprs, Dylan, and how the paren-heavy syntax wasn't meant for human
by yencabulator 3y ago
It's weird to have a Lisp fanboy gushing about parentheses without seemingly knowing about M-exprs, Dylan, and how the paren-heavy syntax wasn't meant for humans.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan_(programming_language)
- lispm 3y ago> the paren-heavy syntax wasn't meant for humans In Lisp the "paren-heavy syntax" was for humans. It was even a part of M-exprs. It was the syntax for data in the m-expression syntax. But the M-exprs wasn't implemented, the code was translated by humans to full s-expressions and entered that way. Users then found out that it was easier to stay with s-expressions.