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mhoye

Proposal: a dialect of lisp where all the parentheses are replaced with angle brackets pointing the opposite direction. Functionally identical, and 50x more alarming to see on a screen. Thanks for the idea, @scruss

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Josh Justice

@mhoye @scruss This makes me want to make a dialect of a programming language where all the function names are replaced by names that make it sound like you’re a hacker in a cyberpunk dystopia breaking into the Gibson

Stewart Russell

@mhoye I used to work (back before XML was a thing) with a markup language that had tags that looked like >this< and you'd end an element with the one you started it with ...

>text<so it kind of looked like >b<this>b<>text<

Pretty much explains what's left of my sanity

Melicious the Invicious ⯰

@scruss @mhoye

cat main.lsp | tr '()><' '><()'

Because let's also make the parentheses alarming.

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