<bjorkintosh>
somehow, it seems the lisp adventurers always miss Picolisp. how's that possible?
<abu[7]>
No idea. Perhaps because it is too different?
<bjorkintosh>
it has ()s!!!
<bjorkintosh>
in the beginning was the atom and the (). and /\ saw it was good. and then /\ from the atom and the () created forms.
<abu[7]>
But as Colin writes in your link, you stop seeing the parentheses
<abu[7]>
T
<bjorkintosh>
some were deemed special, and some were deemed regular. but thus arose a language.
<fbytez>
Unfortunately, I can't quite remember how I discovered pil. All I remember is that I was researching languages that have a relatively simple implementation.
<fbytez>
Something I haven't seen in another lisp, so far, is having the full dynamic scoping instead of lexical.
<bjorkintosh>
there are numerical designations for those.
<fbytez>
I haven't really written much lisp, but I not only find that the "()" somewhat disappear, I also like them; there's never any ambiguity.
<fbytez>
I like postfix for similar reasons.
<abu[7]>
Me too. But as you said, the other issue is dynamic binding
<fbytez>
I actually think Haskell would have been better to not include infix notation.
<bjorkintosh>
Haskell's pedigree requires it to have that syntax.
<bjorkintosh>
PJ Landin's papers were the origin, if I'm not mistaken.
<bjorkintosh>
that is why a number of FPs have a particular syntatic similarity. Hope, Miranda, the MLs, Haskell, Idris, etc.
<bjorkintosh>
Clean ...
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<bjorkintosh>
to be sure, I like the ()s.
<bjorkintosh>
I like to see them.
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<pablo_escoberg>
I was also disappointed that that article omitted picolisp. Personally, I found it on Hacker News. It would come up once in a while, I'd look into and be impressed, then move on. Finally, the pure elegance of the thing got to me and I started coding again. Very glad I did.
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<fbytez>
It gets a small mention in the HN comments.