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The Om Programming Language

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pgttoday at 7:54 PM

Would recommend placing example language syntax above the fold. Was tough to have to scroll halfway down the entire site to see any syntax. Nobody cares about the EBNF syntax until they have a feel for the language.

irickttoday at 6:51 PM

A more explanatory article mentioned in the post: https://evincarofautumn.blogspot.com/2012/02/why-concatenati...

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willquacktoday at 7:23 PM

I worked with Jason (creator of Om) at my last job. He's awesome!

omoikanetoday at 7:35 PM

> any UTF-8 text (without byte-order marker) defines a valid Om program.

What is the behavior of a program with unmatched braces? I am not sure a stray `}` would fit any of the defined syntax.

https://www.om-language.com/index.html#language__syntax__

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bittermandeltoday at 7:11 PM

I confused this with https://github.com/omcljs/om

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maximgeorgetoday at 9:40 PM

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esafaktoday at 7:03 PM

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jwilbertoday at 7:18 PM

Will never not complain about languages not giving code examples. It’s like writing a charting/UI/style library and showing no examples. Just what?

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