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Re:The Egison Programming Language by wizzwizz4 on Saturday April 29, 2023 @02:58PM (#35755932)
It looks interesting, but I don't understand the syntax. The only documentation is a doctoral thesis, which contains the usual padding:

> Interestingly, this basic definition of map has been almost unchanged for 60 years since McCarthy first presented the definition of maplist in [62].

but it jumps from what looks like standard Haskell, to the new syntax, without explanation.

Re:The Egison Programming Language by hyperhello on Saturday April 29, 2023 @03:30PM (#35756267)
“Egison makes programming dramatically simple!”
Re:The Egison Programming Language by 082349872349872 on Saturday April 29, 2023 @03:13PM (#35756112)
Re:The Egison Programming Language by wizzwizz4 on Saturday April 29, 2023 @03:28PM (#35756249)
That doesn't help either.

> By the way, in this paper, we present Egison in Haskell-like syntax to omit a detail explanation of the syntax.

Re:The Egison Programming Language by 082349872349872 on Saturday April 29, 2023 @03:30PM (#35756268)
so learn the semantics from the paper, then see if the syntax makes more sense...