[HN Gopher] Smalltalk, Haskell and Lisp
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       Smalltalk, Haskell and Lisp
        
       Author : todsacerdoti
       Score  : 22 points
       Date   : 2025-06-06 20:55 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | throwaway81523 wrote:
       | 2011
        
       | transfire wrote:
       | IDK. They all look a little atrocious to me.
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       | But readability has a lot to do with what you are used to.
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       | The only exception might be FORTH. A very well written FORTH
       | implementation (and I mean _very_ well written) probably would be
       | fairly readable to anyone -- at least at the higher levels of
       | abstraction.
        
       | readthenotes1 wrote:
       | Smalltalk used to have left arrow for assignment like I see in
       | the Haskell here.
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       | It's a lot prettier than :=
        
         | bitwize wrote:
         | Smalltalk's left arrow is actually _. Before ASCII was fully
         | standardized to what we know today, ^ was | and _ was -. This
         | is visible in some later character sets, like PETSCII and the
         | fonts used for Smalltalk. In Smalltalk, you can still type 'a _
         | foo' and it will assign foo to a.
        
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