| ▲ | LISPy things you can do in 64K bytes of core (2019)(t3x.org) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 48 points by andsoitis 2 days ago | 8 comments | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | sudahtigabulan 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
> Note that programs were usually typed on as few lines as possible, because they had to be punched to punched cards or typed in at a teletype which echoed its input on paper. I suspect this is the real reason behind "cram all the closing parentheses together on the same line" rule. The only rationale I've seen online is in Taylor Campbell's style guide: > Absolutely do not place closing brackets on their own lines. > ... > Rationale: The parentheses grow lonely if their closing brackets are all kept separated and segregated. Yeah, right. Anybody know anything about how this rule came to be? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | tomhow 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Previously... LISPy things you can do in 64K bytes of core (2019) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44490099 - July 2025 (4 comments) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | matt_daemon 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This is somewhat confusing as there is a fairly well known toy Lisp interpreter called Lispy written by Peter Norvig | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||