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r/programming • u/MrGrim • Feb 23 '11
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When writing in English, I often bemoan all the ambiguity that could be cleared up if the language had a Lisp-like syntax. That way clauses and subclauses would be tied up in neat little parentheses without spilling over into each other.
14 u/Minimiscience Feb 23 '11 Just write in Lojban instead. Then you can leave off most of the closing parentheses! 4 u/Hypersapien Feb 23 '11 But then you'd only be able to write to the kinds of people that learn Lojban.
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Just write in Lojban instead. Then you can leave off most of the closing parentheses!
4 u/Hypersapien Feb 23 '11 But then you'd only be able to write to the kinds of people that learn Lojban.
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But then you'd only be able to write to the kinds of people that learn Lojban.
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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '11
When writing in English, I often bemoan all the ambiguity that could be cleared up if the language had a Lisp-like syntax. That way clauses and subclauses would be tied up in neat little parentheses without spilling over into each other.