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tmtvl • yesterday at 10:41 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Leaving aside the fact that you have at least 4 (EDIT: 5) mistakes in that code, I find it less readable than the Lisp equivalent. The brackets reinforce the structure imposed by the indentation and help me keep track of order of execution. But that's how my brain works and that's why syntax is subjective.

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Joker_vD • yesterday at 11:10 PM

My apologies, it should've been (if you insist on indentation)

        let a, b, c = 0, 1, 0
    fb_start:
        writen(a)
        b +:= a
        a :=
          b - a
        c +:= 1
        if c < 100 do
          goto fb-start
Would you care to elaborate about brackets helping with tracking the order of execution? I'm really curious about that part.