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1. Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@octodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2019 20:06:57 UTC Christine Lemmer-Webber

   A troubling thing about alternatives to s-expression representation: to date, I don't know of anyone who, once they understand s-expressions enough to advocate for how the alternative syntax is "better" ends up dogfooding it themselves. Instead, they use s-expressions.

   • schemers (schemers@mastodon.technology)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2019 21:31:22 UTC schemers

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     • Thomas

     @cwebber Just to add some context to the toot for the readers that are not aware of what is happening. Racket is thinking of introducing a new language named Racket2, a language that is not based on parenthesis.

     Check this toot by @tfb https://functional.cafe/@tfb/102456871520574274

     ref: https://github.com/racket/racket2-rfcs

     ref: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/racket-users/ewWuCvbe93k

     Christine Lemmer-Webber repeated this.
   • zig 🌑🌱 (zig@functional.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2019 21:35:42 UTC zig 🌑🌱

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     • schemers
     • Thomas

     @schemers @cwebber @tfb I agree, it is difficult to leave s-expr and in particular the easy syntax transformations it support.

     At the same time Racket is THE language platform for making languages, maybe they will come up with a syntax that can be better that everything that already exists?

     Christine Lemmer-Webber repeated this.