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by nightski 4093 days ago
Who says a language has to be text based and have a tokenizer or parser? The point is it really isn't that relevant to the language.

It's kind of like saying in order to learn how to exercise we should play some video games first.

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>Who says a language has to be text based and have a tokenizer or parser?

99% of languages out there, including in the Lisp family.

>It's kind of like saying in order to learn how to exercise we should play some video games first.

No, it's more like saying that in order to learn how to exercise we should move our bodies...