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Post #4404265

2026-08-05 05:53 UTC

@screwlisp@gamerplus.org @ramin_hal9001@fe.disroot.org "The great thing about #Lisp is that it has extremely simple syntax" ... except, of course, for #CommonLisp which is a complete baroque mess. Of course, it's largely a complete baroque mess because reader macros, and reader macros are useful shorthand, but `#$(words)`? Really? And noted also that #Clojure has its own baroquery hard-coded into its reader (`#{:a :b [:c @D@mastodon.scot]}`, anyone?), which is arguably worse, but... This might as well be #Perl.

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  • @vnikolov@ieji.de 2026-08-05 07:31

    «except, of course, for #CommonLisp which is a complete baroque mess.» This is a big exaggeration. «`#$(words)`» This is not standard Common Lisp. @simon_brooke@mastodon.scot @screwlisp@gamerplus.org @ramin_hal9001@fe.disroot.org @D@mastodon.scot

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