In programming languages I would say Perl, I have never heard some of the noises I have heard coming out of programmers trying to decipher and debug someone elses Perl program ;)
Which Language Uses the Most Sounds?
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Re: Which Language Uses the Most Sounds?
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The strange syntax of Haskell is what's turning me off from learning it. With Lisp, the syntax was strange still, sure, but it wasn't confusing, it made sense. I feel like I can't even get in to reading Haskell or even OCaml. However if Haskell had macros (like Perl 6's or even Lisp's), I'd jump ship from Lisp quite quickly. It's a mature language with the libraries I want.
> if Haskell had macros What are you wanting that's missing from Template Haskell?
Or even lazy evaluation.
Re: Which Language Uses the Most Sounds?
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> if Haskell had macros What are you wanting that's missing from Template Haskell?
Or even lazy evaluation.
I think implementing lazy evaluation is a common use case of macros in languages that don't support it otherwise, but there are plenty of other uses (some questionable on balance, but all with their upsides).