On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 10:56 AM, Isaiah Norton <isaiah.nor...@gmail.com>
wrote:

>

- Scheme: because Julia is a Trojan Horse to finally make the world use
> Lisp. because it keeps the pesky peasants out. because it's a great
> compiler language and allowed fast implementation and iteration. There is
> some interest in moving the front end to pure Julia, and the parser has
> been ported already (JuliaParser.jl) -- that's about ~1/3 of the job.
> Porting the lowering and sorting out bootstrapping is a fair amount of
> effort and would likely need to be done by people who could be making more
> user-relevant improvements elsewhere. So far, doing so hasn't been a
> priority.
>

There's something delightful about the fact that in order to change the
syntax of Julia, you must first prove yourself proficient in a language
that actively rejects the very concept of fancy syntax.

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