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toshtoday at 3:48 PM1 replyview on HN

I can't recommend highly enough to implement a simple lisp (or a forth).

Illuminating experience and it will also help you see (among many other things) the parentheses in a different light.


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stdatomictoday at 4:08 PM

First day of paradigms course in the 2000s and prof says "if your opinion of Scheme is too many parentheses, then you're an idiot."

Needless to say that was my opinion and every day I think, more and more, how right he was.

(later I did make some gui apps that included scripting and chose s-expr syntax because of how simple it is to implement it)

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