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1. Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@octodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jul-2019 15:03:06 UTC Christine Lemmer-Webber

   Racket is an acceptable Python https://dustycloud.org/blog/racket-is-an-acceptable-python/

   • B. Slade :gnu: :emacs: (emacsomancer@linuxrocks.online)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jul-2019 13:19:06 UTC B. Slade :gnu: :emacs:

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     @cwebber I think other than initially looking a bit funny or being unfamiliar to people who learned programming with non-Lispy languages, #Lisp #parentheses have more advantages than disadvantages. I mentioned to Matthew Flatt (re: paren-less Racket langs) that I think the parens could make Racket/Lisp potentially easier for getting #linguistics students into non-trivial programming than other langs, since linguists are used to dealing with #trees and bracket-notation for trees.

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   • f.rift :fire_blue: (feonixrift@hackers.town)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jul-2019 14:05:40 UTC f.rift :fire_blue:

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     • B. Slade :gnu: :emacs:

     @_emacsomancer @cwebber and rainbow highlighting does more for readability than brackets do.

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   • Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@octodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jul-2019 14:11:30 UTC Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     • B. Slade :gnu: :emacs:
     • f.rift :fire_blue:

     @feonixrift @_emacsomancer Yes, I think this is a key thing often missed: reading parenthetical syntax can be *more readable* with rainbow parentheses https://dustycloud.org/tmp/emacs_lisp_setup.png

   • Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@octodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jul-2019 14:12:10 UTC Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     • B. Slade :gnu: :emacs:
     • f.rift :fire_blue:

     @feonixrift @_emacsomancer Yes, I think this is a key thing often missed: reading parenthetical syntax can be *more readable* than non-parenthetical syntax by a dramatic amount with rainbow parentheses https://dustycloud.org/tmp/emacs_lisp_setup.png

     And that's not even including how parenthetical structure makes code flow more obvious.

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   • Michał "phoe" Herda (phoe@functional.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jul-2019 14:35:00 UTC Michał "phoe" Herda

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     • B. Slade :gnu: :emacs:
     • f.rift :fire_blue:

     @cwebber @feonixrift @_emacsomancer why hello there, this is what my emacs looks like now

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