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by vitiral 1319 days ago
"Syntax is the easiest part of being a software engineer."

This is probably the best quip I've heard all week.

I'm developing a language with "no syntax", every token is executed immediately, making it trivial to create arbitrary syntax at any point in the file (literally you could define a function that implements SQL syntax and then call it - you are now using SQL syntax).

I don't necessarily recommend it for every language but it's really interesting how little it actually affects the hard problems of software engineering.

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Oh, so you discovered Lisp. Congrats:)
Even less syntax than lisp! Inspired by forth.