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Blog post on programming language design principles gains traction
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6 Sep 22 6:46 PM · 1d ago · 1 post · 1 comment · 2 sources · development 6 of 7
The same essay is posted to Hacker News and receives 2 points with only 1 comment, indicating narrower audience interest on that platform.
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1Post shared on Lobsters community2Commenters propose additions and debate…3Readers debate trailing comma syntax7Commenter cites Haskell precedent for…
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The OP wishes to syntactically distinguish keywords from identifiers, so that you can add new keywords in a backward compatible way, without invalidating existing code. The OP suggests using sigils to distinguish keywords, but the Algol standards propose to mark this syntactic distinction by representing keywords in bold face. And bold face looks…
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