Re:Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages
by lifthrasiir on Thursday March 26, 2020 @06:34AM
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Juxtaposition (`foo size()`) is a serious contender I think. In fact, I consider it is one of the most undervalued syntactic choices.
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Re:Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages
by WorldMaker on Thursday March 26, 2020 @12:22PM
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In HS I built a toy language where it was `foo's size()`, if you want to play even further down the English-like rabbit hole, even trying to stick to BNF-ish CFGs. `'s` is actually a surprisingly unambiguous token in a language without a "char type" and that sticks to double quotes only for strings.