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A comment on History of Lisp Parentheses (2019). Parent comment

Re:History of Lisp Parentheses (2019) by marssaxman on Thursday February 02, 2023 @02:57PM (#34632156)
> To the contrary, it will ruin future programmers.

Dijkstra once said the same of Basic!

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Re:History of Lisp Parentheses (2019) by timbit42 on Sunday February 05, 2023 @11:16AM (#34666053)
And he was right. Look at how many BASIC programmers can't handle S-expressions.
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