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Re:Hy – A Lisp-flavored Python by flavio81 on Thursday August 03, 2017 @12:56PM (#14921303)
>I'm a Lisper (and Pythoner) (...) It boggles my mind that Lispers haven't taken that problem seriously. I have taken it very seriously and have been working on it for years. I just started publishing my results. http://breckyunits.com/the-flaw-in-lisp.html

Honestly, there is no flaw in the parentheses. You just need to write more Lisp.

The parentheses are one of the best things in Lisp.

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Re:Hy – A Lisp-flavored Python by breck on Thursday August 03, 2017 @04:12PM (#14923352)
Disagree. The parens are a missed opportunity. If you use geometry instead, you gain extraordinary new powers of analyzing and editing large programs in 2 and 3 dimensions. Not possible with the parens. The benefits still are not obvious but we're working on publishing more data and tools
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Re:Hy – A Lisp-flavored Python by flavio81 on Thursday August 03, 2017 @08:41PM (#14925415)
Well, then have fun programming in Befunge, exactly the programming language that will fullfill your bidimensional desires.
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Re:Hy – A Lisp-flavored Python by breck on Saturday August 05, 2017 @01:42PM (#14936854)
Sadly, I've worked with some code bases before that may have been more fun to work on if they were in Befunge.
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