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coolbean (account has been reverted to before we moved back to this instance)

back on here, you know what that means! loaded up the finkpad for the first time in a few days cause i must prepare the racket post

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coolbean (account has been reverted to before we moved back to this instance)

ngl, using drracket cause no proper text editor setup so far and like

this kinda reminds me of using slime on common lisp

which is good, that was the good parts about that language, you could just mess with the running program from the repl, thats a really cool workflow

so if the language is otherwise also more well thought out and less messy, this might actually work out

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coolbean (account has been reverted to before we moved back to this instance)

what the fuck conventions is this talking about ive never seen this before

Following the usual conventions, * in a grammar means zero or more repetitions of the preceding element, + means one or more repetitions of the preceding element, and {} groups a sequence as an element for repetition.

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coolbean (account has been reverted to before we moved back to this instance)

and heres the real reason we had to go back to lisps, polish notation (putting the mathematical operator before the values meaning mathematical operations use the same syntax as any other function) my beloved

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