Nim Programming Language v0.15.0 released

Re:Nim Programming Language v0.15.0 released by JadeNB on Saturday October 01, 2016 @11:48AM (#12618334)

> > Now see, that's much clearer.

> From the perspective of someone who knows Lisp, perhaps.

For what it's worth, as a perpetual novice programmer who knows Lisp a little and Nim not at all, I also found qwertyuiop924 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12617350 )'s example much clearer. (EDIT: Of course it's totally anecdotal, but I thought that it might be worthwhile to have a data point from someone who is not an expert in either language.)

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Re:Nim Programming Language v0.15.0 released by qwertyuiop924 on Saturday October 01, 2016 @05:42PM (#12620017)

You'll find lispm's, from a sibling comment, even clearer:

  (defmacro debug-it (&body expressions)
    `(progn
        ,@(mapcar (lambda (expression)
                    `(format t "~%~a: ~a" ',expression ,expression))
                  expressions)))

That's Common Lisp. I probably could have made mine similarly clean, but I was too lazy to do so :-).

Anyways, hats off to lispm, because he's the one who actually did it.

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