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I love the idea of Lisp and Scheme, and I have spent considerable weeks learning and playing in it. But at the end of the day, all those parentheses just make m
by marshray 14y ago
I love the idea of Lisp and Scheme, and I have spent considerable weeks learning and playing in it. But at the end of the day, all those parentheses just make my eyeballs swim.
I want more than one way to group things together so that the grouping conveys some meaning without me having to read words. I.e., I want some syntax.
- bun-neh 14y agoIf its the parentheses that get you, why not try a postfix language like forth or factor?
- marshray 14y agoYeah those are cool languages, I am intrigued by them. So other than the bare-metal suitability of Forth, what is the killer app for postfix/concatenative lanaguages? E.g., right now I'm trying to get into Erlang, because Riak.
- pnathan 14y agoCode highlighting, paren highlighting, and good indentation do it for me.
- darkf 14y agoHalf-joking plug: http://github.com/darkf/possum-ocaml http://github.com/darkf/possum-ocaml does prefix without parenthesis.