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What are your programming hot takes?

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eeleech@lemm.ee
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I find that S-expressions are the best syntax for programming languages. And in general infix operators are inferior to either prefix or postfix notation.

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Andy@programming.dev
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In case you haven’t heard, Factor just had a new stable release, and is tons of fun for postfix enthusiasts.

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eeleech@lemm.ee
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Thanks, i hadn’t heard oft Factor before, it looks interesting. I’m more of a LISP and FP Person but always wanted to properly learn a stack based language, Factor seems like a nice alternative to Forth for that purpose.

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xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org
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I never understood how concatenative programmers can hold the current state of the stack in their head and never get confused about what is where, especially when changing complex code.

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Andy@programming.dev
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Haha I’m still working that out for sure. I guess a combination of comments, a good debugger, practice, patterns such as making many very small well defined functions, and frankly a bunch of the people being geniuses (myself certainly excluded).

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russ@programming.dev
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100%! It was mind-blowing to realize lisps are actually syntactically simpler than all the non-lisps so popular today

Takes a bit of love from editor standpoint unfortunately, so most devs will just never attempt that hurdle

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