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@sleepyfox @iris_meredith the 'joke' I was attempting to make is that pure #Lisps, written as S expressions, do indeed have no syntax at all. Modern Lisps, such as #CommonLisp and #Clojure, do have *some* syntax, but compared to any Algol-family language (such as C and Python) it's minimal.

It's the lack of syntax, not the presence of syntax, that Algol-family programmers find conceptually hard.

Moved from previous account. So, here I go again

After lurking for so long, Here is my #Introduction

I am Moksh, A kid with questions, from #India.
I am firm believer in #privacy and #permacomputing, My other interests include #emacs, #bsd, #lisps, #solarpunk. But I dabble into too many things to write all of them down. I can't program things that come to my mind (skill issue) but working on changing that

I hope to learn from all the wonderful people here :)

@b0rk No, no, really it isn't inevitable. Inaccuracy of rational numbers is not inevitable at all - modern #Lisps (since about 1981) can handle perfectly accurate rationals up to extremely large, and down to extremely small sizes. Of course, their are infinitely many more irrationals than rationals, and irrationals cannot be perfectly represented. But they can be represented far more perfectly than can be managed in 64 bits.

https://dreamsongs.com/Files/Hopl2.pdf#page=20

We're no longer short of store.

@arunisaac Lol.

People keep getting worried about 'scope' of things. I was introduced to #lisps by Paul Graham's writings. Till date he doesn't even mention #clojure which has the power to leverage the #JVM and #Javascript ecosystem.

I think I will host a session clojure at #FSHM soon.