Re:Racket2 Possibilities
by dreamcompiler on Monday July 22, 2019 @11:29PM
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Completely agree. Haskell is IMO the only paren-free Lisp that works. As you said, it was designed that way from scratch, not as an afterthought from s-expr syntax. I also think automatic currying and pervasive laziness contribute a great deal to making the parens unnecessary, and most Lisps don't work that way.
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> Haskell is IMO the only paren-free Lisp that works.
Out of curiosity: Do you think Julia is not a Lisp, or that Julia doesn’t work?
Re:Racket2 Possibilities
by dreamcompiler on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @09:30AM
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I know Julia was originally a Lisp and it incorporates a lot of Lisp ideas, but I've never used it so I have no opinion about how well it works.
Lots of Lispers consider Javascript a (primitive) Lisp because it has lexical closures, but I think its syntax is horrible and thus (IMO) it doesn't "work."