Re:Teaching D from Scratch: Is it a viable first language?
by chriswarbo on Thursday December 30, 2021 @02:01AM
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Parentheses aren't required for Lisp, since there are many alternative representations http://chriswarbo.net/blog/2017-08-29-s_expressions.html
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Re:Teaching D from Scratch: Is it a viable first language?
by WalterBright on Thursday December 30, 2021 @05:17AM
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> many alternative representations
If people feel regularly compelled to redo the syntax, there's something wrong with it. "Many" means balkanization, which is another problem. (D has some carefully designed points which discourage balkanization.)
It goes back to too many parentheses. So I'm only half joking about it.