tomhow4 hours ago
Previously...
LISPy things you can do in 64K bytes of core (2019) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44490099 - July 2025 (4 comments)
matt_daemonan hour ago
This is somewhat confusing as there is a fairly well known toy Lisp interpreter called Lispy written by Peter Norvig
sudahtigabulan2 hours ago
> 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?
weknowbetter2 hours ago
This drives me nuts. I love LISP but refuse to pretend writing `)))))))` is reasonable.
uncletaco2 hours ago
Whya are you writing ')))))' instead of your closing parenthesis being autogenerated. Sounds like a recipe for failure.
greenbit2 hours ago
))))))) isn't so bad, but )))))))) is just getting ridiculous. You have to draw the line somewhere
isran hour ago
picolisp has an interesting solution to this. A single ']' will close all open )'s for that block of code
andsoitisop2 hours ago
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hujun2362 hours ago
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