Being intrigued, I took me half the thread of comments to realize it was 3y olds. After a few googling, it seems the author have followed up on their intent : Annexi-strayline consultancy website and their blog.
The first two languages I was exposed as a teenager (longer than a few articles on the web) was Scheme and Ada because for whatever reasons at the time, I found one book on each for cheap at a second-hand bookshops. It never pushed so far to be fluent on those languages but it set me up for weird expectations for what I expected programming languages to be. I fell hard on my nose when discovering Python, Javascript and C after that :)
With learning about “everything explicit and words prevail on sigils/hierogplyphs” mentality from and Ada and weirdly it is also something that you will see a lot in Scheme. The main design concept that remains from those two are the homogeneity and predictability of the design syntax, I think that Zig right is pushing also the enveloppe this way.
I took me a long time to find a language matching reasonable syntax balance between all those until I see Julia. I also developed a strong preference to kebab-case for unclear reason. At the same time, I am digging Raku (where sigil and one (unicode) character function and operators are legion) but hey kebab-case here.
I realized last week that this means that I could bind the uppercase characters to paredit stuff; in comments and strings they self-insert, and on the rare case I need to type them in an identifier or symbol I can C-q first.
It’s working out great, I have four different lengths of wrap hardcoded. Usually I just want zero, one or two anyway.
Yes, it was a bit tongue-in-cheek sorry and a bit about finding kebab-case the more readable form vs snake and camel without really knowing why (besides first exposure and impact that can have on habit).
Being intrigued, I took me half the thread of comments to realize it was 3y olds. After a few googling, it seems the author have followed up on their intent : Annexi-strayline consultancy website and their blog.
The first two languages I was exposed as a teenager (longer than a few articles on the web) was Scheme and Ada because for whatever reasons at the time, I found one book on each for cheap at a second-hand bookshops. It never pushed so far to be fluent on those languages but it set me up for weird expectations for what I expected programming languages to be. I fell hard on my nose when discovering Python, Javascript and C after that :)
With learning about “everything explicit and words prevail on sigils/hierogplyphs” mentality from and Ada and weirdly it is also something that you will see a lot in Scheme. The main design concept that remains from those two are the homogeneity and predictability of the design syntax, I think that Zig right is pushing also the enveloppe this way.
I took me a long time to find a language matching reasonable syntax balance between all those until I see Julia. I also developed a strong preference to kebab-case for unclear reason. At the same time, I am digging Raku (where sigil and one (unicode) character function and operators are legion) but hey kebab-case here.
This is quite prevalent in Scheme and other Lisp dialects. Maybe it stems from there?
A “good justification” comes from Chris Done’s article:
I realized last week that this means that I could bind the uppercase characters to paredit stuff; in comments and strings they self-insert, and on the rare case I need to type them in an identifier or symbol I can C-q first.
It’s working out great, I have four different lengths of wrap hardcoded. Usually I just want zero, one or two anyway.
Yes, it was a bit tongue-in-cheek sorry and a bit about finding kebab-case the more readable form vs snake and camel without really knowing why (besides first exposure and impact that can have on habit).
You should take a look at the Zinc programming language. It allows whitespace in identifiers. Spacecase.
(Also, there’s a joke to be made about “kebab-case” and “tongue-in-cheek”.)
So did Algol 68, technically.
Keep on stropping in the free world
Christ, I feel dumb, haha. I was tired writing that comment…