What makes Lisp difficult to read?(paultm.nl)
20 points by ibobev | 24 comments
Blog post exploring why Lisp's parenthesis-heavy syntax is perceived as hard to read and what that implies for designing syntax in new languages.
#syntax on Hacker News
4 stories tagged syntax, newest first.
Left to Right Programming(graic.net)
406 points by graic | 323 comments
A blog post arguing that programming language syntax should flow left to right so code is valid as typed, critiquing Python's list comprehensions.
(On | No) Syntactic Support for Error Handling(go.dev)
329 points by henrikhorluck | 436 comments
Go Blog post by Robert Griesemer discussing proposals for syntactic support for error handling in Go and the team's decision on whether to pursue them.
Pipelining might be my favorite programming language feature(herecomesthemoon.net)
355 points by Mond_ | 317 comments
A blog post on Mond←Tech Magazine arguing that pipelining (method-chaining-style syntax) is a favorite programming language feature over free-standing function calls.