bequa la froth @eel@merveilles.town

#introductions

bequa ░ cybernetician striving for better systems. into anarchism and noise music. creates digitally.

http://eelfroth.com

it's implemented by specifying new abbreviations for
- infix expressions: {a + b} => (+ a b)
- modern expressions: f(x) => (f x)
- sweet expressions: deduce parentheses from indentation

https://sourceforge.net/p/readable/wiki/Solution/

Sweet-Expressions, or the Readable Lisp S-Expression Project, looks like a pretty good solution to the parentheses problem. it adds readability to Lisp's syntax while keeping it generic and homoiconic

https://readable.sourceforge.io/

consider runtime dependencies as part of your app. if your program is 1 MB but in order to use it you first have to install a 50 MB language-runtime and 200 MB of libraries, then your app weighs effectively 251 MB.
just something to be aware of

I would like to start off a new tag for sharing knowledge on any topic at all that we find valuable (both self-written and in form of annotated links to external sources), so that this type of post can be searched for or pinned as a feed.
as a name for it, I thought #theMultiversity would be nice.
it's a place where we can learn and study together. a class without boundaries between fields of study, where everyone is invited to teach!

would you be interested in this?

Nelson's Canons
A Bill of Information Rights

Dream Machines, page 58
(page 62 in the pdf linked above)

Decision/Creativity Systems [Thinkertoys]
Ted Nelson, 1970
Dream Machines, page 52
(page 56 in the pdf linked above)