Jisp – A programmable language that compiles to JavaScript

Re:Jisp – A programmable language that compiles to JavaScript by bkirwi on Friday October 31, 2014 @01:11AM (#8537425)

I feel like someone should note the irony of finding this comment on HN, which is implemented in Arc: a language that was explicitly designed to be as terse as possible.

http://www.paulgraham.com/arcchallenge.html

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Re:Jisp – A programmable language that compiles to JavaScript by olavk on Friday October 31, 2014 @04:02AM (#8537748)

Terseness at different levels. Avoiding boilerplate syntax is good. Obscure abbreviated names of functions and operators just to save a few keystrokes is bad.

Btw. the definition of terseness in the essay seem specifically chosen to favor Lisp style languages.

2 + 3 * 4

is clearly terser than

(+ 2 (* 3 4))

But by counting "leafs" like he does (rather than say tokens), they get the same terseness-count.

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Re:Jisp – A programmable language that compiles to JavaScript by radmuzom on Friday October 31, 2014 @11:07AM (#8539102)

Don't know anything about Arc, but is there is anything terser than APL?

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