Sunday, December 19, 2010

#10 Programming Languages that Heavily Use Parentheses

This may go out of fashion now that 6.001 is no more, and young MIT CS majors are learning python instead of spending interminable hours trying to visually match parens.  Knights of the Lambda Calculus go forth into the world carrying a sentimentality about SICP that shades their language preferences forever.  Moreover it actually *is* a club, albeit a club with a lot of members who never talk to each other, or have anything binding them except a pin received freshman year.  Paren-lovers are identifiable by observing their odd paren-matching gestures while staring intently at a computer screen.

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