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by digitaltrees 175 days ago
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I might have forgotten a (

Ruby is clean. Which I love.

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Lisp is the cleanest language out there! It has one construct: parentheses. It's simpler than Ruby.

Wrt "forgetting" parentheses, the Lisp people have ways around that: they set up their editors so they operate on the expressions and can't "forget" a paren. They operate on the logical blocks (which is easy (because of the parentheses)).