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Precepts: Technical maxims that define Urbit's approach to engineering

2 pointsby jackfoxyover 3 years ago

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jackfoxyover 3 years ago
Hoon, the higher level functional language of Urbit, is homoiconic and very Lisp-like. Written using <i>runes</i>, which define relationships of daughter branches in a binary tree and using limited semantic white space it does not suffer from the forest of parentheses which happen in Lisps.