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1. Vertigo (vertigo@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Aug-2017 04:16:43 UTC Vertigo

   After looking up several BNFs for Smalltalk, I have only this comment to make about the language:

   Though it only has 5 (originally 6) keywords and arguably one of the simplest syntaxes of any programming language out there, all the BNFs for it are (so far as I've seen to date) consistently larger than Oberon's by a non-trivial amount.

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   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Aug-2017 04:20:55 UTC Hallå Kitteh

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     @vertigo I'm not going to go down that rabbithole, I would prefer you do it for me, so ... :-)
     
     ... do you have a general idea of what it driving the complexity of the grammar?
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Aug-2017 05:55:51 UTC Hallå Kitteh
     @vertigo I don't know anything about PEG. Do you? I'm wondering if that would be more effective.
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Aug-2017 23:24:42 UTC Hallå Kitteh
     @vertigo Wow. Found several interesting-looking things just searching for ometa and alan kay, whether related to what you're thinking of or not. Thanks!