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dismalaftoday at 3:23 PM1 replyview on HN

Funny enough Lisp was originally meant to be written in a higher level syntax (with infix operators and everything).

But yeah, macros and S-expressions make it easier to write your own DSLs.


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pjmlptoday at 4:41 PM

With decades later, Dylan and Julia becoming the only ones that kind of managed to get some adoption doing it.

For better or worse, parenthesis aren't that bad with the proper IDE tooling.

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