alt Hacker NewsWith 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.
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.
> For better or worse, parenthesis aren't that bad with the proper IDE tooling.
Hell, even without [0], you can at least count the parenthesis by hand in a pinch. I remember seeing lots of crazy-awesome stuff done in AutoLisp by 'non-programmers', versus 'structure as spacing' in Python which really sucks if the Editor was designed to use the system default (probably non-monospaced, cause other products in the industry had dialogs that broke if you switched to a monospaced) font. [1]
[0] - but real talk parenthesis matching in an editor is a lifesaver
[1] - oooooold version of a very popular GIS product.