[HN Gopher] Learn to program with Wisp, a Lisp without parentheses
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       Learn to program with Wisp, a Lisp without parentheses
        
       Author : behnamoh
       Score  : 9 points
       Date   : 2023-08-02 21:00 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | feoren wrote:
       | There seems to be two camps in language design: those who want to
       | see their punctuation, and those that want their punctuation to
       | be _invisible_. Python, CoffeeScript, YAML, Wisp: these languages
       | _still have punctuation_. It 's just spaces, tabs, and carriage
       | returns -- all invisible. I always prefer to be able to see my
       | punctuation, and it's very difficult for me to understand why
       | anyone else wants the opposite.
       | 
       | Languages that try to be concise are like textspeak. Its fast wen
       | u jst need 2 send throwaway msgs lol. That's what makes them
       | popular for scripting: writing a quick script is like writing a
       | quick text. It's "write-only". But you would never write a
       | technical document out of textspeak: clarity is much more
       | important than brevity. So it is with serious programming
       | languages. It makes invisible-punctuation languages feel like
       | toys. And yes, I'm even including Tensorflow with Python: those
       | are still mostly "write-only" scripts that are not meant to be
       | maintained like professional software is.
       | 
       | Stop making your punctuation invisible.
        
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