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breck on Aug 3, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Hy – A Lisp-flavored Python

Disagree. The parens are a missed opportunity. If you use geometry instead, you gain extraordinary new powers of analyzing and editing large programs in 2 and 3 dimensions. Not possible with the parens. The benefits still are not obvious but we're working on publishing more data and tools

flavio81 on Aug 4, 2017 [–]

Well, then have fun programming in Befunge, exactly the programming language that will fullfill your bidimensional desires.

breck on Aug 5, 2017 | [–]

Sadly, I've worked with some code bases before that may have been more fun to work on if they were in Befunge.

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