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Re:History of Lisp Parentheses (2019) by wellpast on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @10:46PM (#34621771)
Exactly. Totally baffled by the supposed popular reaction to parens. (However I use IDEs that match and color parens so maybe then didn't have such in the olden days referenced here.)

Not having S-expressions is weird. Not being able to drop my cursor anywhere and with a few keystrokes to expand my selection "grab" a referentially transparent value expression and just relocate it or move it or evaluate in the REPL. What are all these other PLs and programmers even doing?

Re:History of Lisp Parentheses (2019) by gumby on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @11:50PM (#34622217)
A lot of languages pointlessly make a distinction between a statement and an expression. I can’t imagine why anyone would want that.
Re:History of Lisp Parentheses (2019) by sph on Thursday February 02, 2023 @04:08AM (#34624062)
It's one of the things I love the most in Rust, and was previously just seen in functional languages.

Even scripting languages like Python feel clunkier than Rust due to the unnecessary statement/expression distinction.