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1. 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Oct-2018 12:58:27 EDT 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account

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   https://github.com/fukamachi/sxql

   Wow.

   This...

   It's SQL with Lisp syntax. It's JSX but for SQL. It's beautiful.

   I tried to accomplish something like this in JS using a JS expression string parser, but this is so much more elegant.

   I've been feeling the urge to extend the languages I use, and Lisp lets you do that effortlessly.

   I can see why Paul Graham says that startups should use Lisp now...

   1. 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Oct-2018 13:01:54 EDT 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account

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      They say that Lisp syntax is weird.

      Let me tell you a story:

      When I was maybe 15 years old, I used Pascal and hadn't learned C yet. People on IRC told me to learn C instead because it was much more powerful, but I refused.

      What was my reason for resisting C? "It has weird syntax."

      Having weird syntax is not a good reason for rejecting a language.

      In fact, if you encounter a language with weird syntax, that's probably a sign that you should learn it.

      1. 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Oct-2018 13:06:40 EDT 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account

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         I had an epiphany when I got comfortable with C.

         "Wow, this language is so powerful. I can do anything I want. Access memory freely, write for loops with multiple iterators, access every system call, and it runs really fast too!"

         When I learned the new functional syntax in ES6, I had a small epiphany over how powerful that was.

         I'm having another one now, over Lisp. It looks so weird and archaic with its S-expressions, but it's more powerful than any other programming language I've seen.