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by Aeolun 861 days ago
Have you seen lisp? To understand even a bit if that you’d have to be god level.

Not that gods don’t make mistakes. But I kind of see where they’re coming from.

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> Have you seen lisp? To understand even a bit if that you’d have to be god level.

Are we talking about parenthesis here again?

It's easy to understand a well written Lisp codebase once you are familiar with its concepts. What you can't do is try to read it when all your prior programing exposure is from, say, the Algol language tree.