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by jackblemming 1646 days ago
One hundred percent agree. Please stop trying to write really verbose code that looks like some weird pseudo english. Mathematicians realized having a grammar specific for mathematics was a GOOD thing NOT a drawback. Even if you have to learn a few symbols at first.

What I want to see: 5 + 3

What I don't want to see: Add the number five to the number three.
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Turing_Machine 1645 days ago
The joke when C++ appeared on the scene was that the successor to COBOL would be named ADD 1 TO COBOL GIVING COBOL.
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bitwize 1645 days ago
One of Tcl's most popular object systems is called incr Tcl. Tcl allows some Lisp-like metaprogramming (albeit effectively all stringly-typed, and with fexpr crawling horrors -- where it's really easy to confuse metalevels -- and weird scoping rules), so incr Tcl can be, and is, implemented in Tcl.
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goatlover 1645 days ago
The logical conclusion of that reasoning is APL. Everything else looks like some weird pseudo english in comparison.
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