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Yep. People often point at syntax and say "yuk!" but the problem is really not groking semantics. Syntax is just easy to bikeshed.


Thank you for clarifying my point, and attaching precise terminology to it!

Come to think of it, that's probably why people mistakenly think that Lisps are so hard. The syntax is scary, and easy to bikeshed - even though most of their semantics (for CL and Scheme, at least) are really easy, and very similar to Python.




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