Why is Hoon the way it is?
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Minimalism, mostly.
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Even the seemingly baroque syntax is extremely regular and an unusually thin layer over the abstract syntax tree.
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It's also designed as a power tool; learning the syntax takes some time, but once you know it, it's quite ergonomic and not hard to read.
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It's like an English speaker learning Cyrillic.
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Replying to @urbit
I'm barely familiar with computer languages as an idea, let alone approaching competence with any of them, so that article is unintelligible to me. That makes me curious: who is the ideal audience who would understand it?
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Anyone with a bit of programming experience
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