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   mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 07-Jul-2025 13:25:46 JST mcc

   ME: I do not like LISP because of all the parenthesis

   ME: [Removes the parenthesis from LISP]

   ME: Wait… this rules

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 07-Jul-2025 13:25:44 JST mcc

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     • Kojack 🦎

     @kojack but then how do i know which operator applies to which item. and for that matter how does a compiler

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     clarity flowers (clarity@xoxo.zone)'s status on Monday, 07-Jul-2025 13:25:44 JST clarity flowers

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     • Kojack 🦎

     @mcc @kojack uiua solves this pretty elegantly with its more idiomatic ways of writing it and also by coloring syntax based on word arity

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     Kojack 🦎 (kojack@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Monday, 07-Jul-2025 13:25:46 JST Kojack 🦎

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     @mcc Or swap from prefix to postfix and you get Forth with no parenthesis. :)
     (= x (- 7 y)) would become x 7 y - =