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jqpabc123today at 7:48 PM1 replyview on HN

It looks more like a "program" for an HP15c pocket scientific calculator.

Not necessarily a bad thing but also not exactly what I would call "expressive".

You may be able to build anything you want --- which may be efficient when communicating with the machine. But I wonder about now well this would communicate with other programmers.


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jibaltoday at 8:14 PM

It's not a program, it is (obviously) a totally unrealistic hodgepodge expression for a list of constant values that simply demonstrates the literal syntax for a variety of types of values (real numbers, dotted pairs, rational numbers, complex numbers, polar coordinates, etc. -- Racket is unusually expressive in the types of literals). Your comment demonstrates something typical of HN, and it's not a good thing. It's as if in a discussion about C someone posted, without explanation, an entry from the Obfuscated C contest and then someone else, making zero effort to understand what was posted, said that it looked like line noise and questioned whether C is conducive to communication between programmers.