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		protonfish on Nov 9, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Lisp as the Maxwell’s Equations of Software (2012) Heaviside promoted Maxwell's equations and created clearer, simpler versions of them. So I think it would be a language that uses list processing and functional concepts as a feature of a syntax that is easier for beginners. Something like Python or JavaScript.

all2 on Nov 10, 2022 [–]

Reminds me of Peter Norvig's sketch of Lisp in Python: https://norvig.com/lispy.html

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