[lelanthran]

> Keeping it simple to write a compiler is not a serious use case these days.

The implication is that if it is simple to write a parser for a language, then the language is simple to read.

[cestith]

Lisp and Scheme seem to discourage this sort of thinking in a great many programmers. After all, Lisps often start as just the eval function for their S-expressions and grow from there.

See also: Brainfuck, Forth, Chinese

[xxpor]

Easy != Simple

Linking this makes me nostalgic for 2010 :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxdOUGdseq4