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Comment by torginus

I do not understand the appeal of LISPy languages. I get that the parser is simple and elegant, but I believe the developer (of the compiler in this case) should serve the convenience of the user, not the other way around.

Writing code like this is cumbersome and unnecessarily symbol heavy, and reading it isn't really nice as well.

I'd rather have the language add that extra complexity into the parser than have me stare down these endless paretheses. Parsing something C-like is not that, hard, trust me, I've done it

parent torginus 1 year ago

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