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0 pointszokier5y ago0 comments

Most programming languages would be better characterized as tree structures than text, being only obscured by unclear (but no less rigid) syntax.

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goatlover5y ago

So Lisp? You still type it in as text.

user-the-name5y ago

Nearly every language will be processed as an AST, not as text.

Text is just a serialisation format for the AST. For some reason we still insist on editing the serialisation format instead of the actual data representation.

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