Re:A Lisp based programming language I'm creating
by gliese1337 on Monday April 16, 2012 @04:31PM
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On the other hand, if you want participation from the Algol-descendant community, who frequently scorn the Lisp community's formatting, that may be exactly the right decision to make to get them familiar with Lisp-like syntax and worry about teaching them the more standard Lisp-community formatting conventions later.
Re:A Lisp based programming language I'm creating
by fusiongyro on Monday April 16, 2012 @04:35PM
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That's a really good point.
Re:A Lisp based programming language I'm creating
by jacquesm on Monday April 16, 2012 @04:40PM
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> and if you want participation from a community you should abide the community's standards, even if they are irrational.
I don't think he's going to get much participation from the lisp community, but then again, everybody else is a much bigger community. So who knows, maybe the power of lisp combined with a non-lispy syntax is a balloon that can fly.
Re:A Lisp based programming language I'm creating
by juliangamble on Monday April 16, 2012 @06:31PM
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> So who knows, maybe the power of lisp combined with a non-lispy syntax is a balloon that can fly.
Sounds like Apple's old language Dylan, and perhaps the Julia language: http://www.johnmyleswhite.com/notebook/2012/03/31/julia-i-lo...
Even if the point is to write Algolish code, formatting it like this is likely to earn scorn rather than appreciation.