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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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