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Re:I Was Wrong about Nix by kragen on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @02:13AM (#22296688)
Nice! I find this a lot more readable than the Scheme, and it certainly contains many fewer tokens; what do you think?
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Re:I Was Wrong about Nix by diffeomorphism on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @05:04AM (#22297335)
That looks almost identical to the Scheme one with the only real difference being foo=bar; vs (foo bar). Hardly enough of a difference to change anything "a lot" either way.
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Re:I Was Wrong about Nix by emerongi on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @03:03AM (#22296874)
Guix package definitions were unreadable to me initially, as I had never used Scheme/Lisp before.

I've written a couple of them now and the definition above is extremely easy to read. Big part is just formatting & parentheses, I think my eyes just needed a little bit of adjustment time.

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Re:I Was Wrong about Nix by svd4anything on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @11:48AM (#22310359)
It’s absolutely more readable.
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