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0 pointsPerryCox13y ago0 comments

It probably gets used about the same amount as the other languages, it's just that the parentheses get used an insane amount and outweigh all the other characters.

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waterlesscloud13y ago

It might be more interesting to see these with the vowels factored out.

waterhouse13y ago

  ~ $ curl -s 'http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/paulgraham/onlisp.lisp' | egrep -o '.' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr
  18641  
  3277 )
  3276 (
  2561 e
  2159 a
  1934 s
  1903 r
  1672 n
  1661 t
  1477 l
  1380 o
  1287 c
  1282 d
  1067 p
  1064 i
  1030 m
  [...]

Without vowels:

nathan_long13y ago

> 3277 ) > 3276 (

My first thought: 'unmatched paren?'

But I bet there's a smiley face on that page somewhere.

EDIT: If there is, I don't see it.

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