Re:The Janet Language
by spikyllama on Friday February 17, 2023 @11:47PM
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line noise much? man, that example is not pretty
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Re:The Janet Language
by nostrademons on Saturday February 18, 2023 @12:05AM
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It's a Lisp. For anyone acquainted with other Lisp dialects, it's about as readable as it gets.
If you're not used to working with lisps, your reaction is basically just unfamiliarity, and not actual discernment. Lisps are inarguably and objectively syntactically simpler than non-s-expression languages.
Pro-tip: move every open-paren to the right of its first enclosed token.
It also help to move each closing paren to it's own line, so instead of
)))
it looks like
)
)
)
It's almost the same number of parens, just a different formatting.