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Re:Original Hacker News Source Code (2009) by QuadrupleA on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @05:25PM (#27453444)
I've enjoyed messing around with Lisp, but for me the uniformity of the syntax makes it harder to reason about - everything looks the same, big blobs of parenthesis.

That's part of its appeal, but also a big part of its downfall I think - other languages can utilize a wider "Ascii spectrum" and represent different things in lexically different ways, making it easier to distinguish at a glance.

Re:Original Hacker News Source Code (2009) by amackera on Friday June 11, 2021 @03:21PM (#27477390)
I think this makes sense. Double-edged swords make for powerful tools.

I like to think you can make a DSL for any situation, but it's not like I've actually done that in practice hah.