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Re:History of Lisp Parentheses (2019) by emmelaich on Thursday February 02, 2023 @04:49AM (#34624398)
Agree with all except that I'd prefer square brackets because it doesn't require using the shift key.
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Re:History of Lisp Parentheses (2019) by hhdave on Thursday February 02, 2023 @06:14AM (#34625049)
Having to press the shift key all the time while programming lisp was annoying. I've remapped them.
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Re:History of Lisp Parentheses (2019) by lispm on Thursday February 02, 2023 @07:45AM (#34625770)
That's why there were special keyboards -> see the unshifted parentheses:

https://webwit.nl/input/lynk/compare1.jpg

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