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The Om Programming Language

204 points by tosh

by pgt

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Would recommend placing example language syntax above the fold. Was tough to have to scroll halfway down the entire site to see any syntax. Nobody cares about the EBNF syntax until they have a feel for the language.

by irickt

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A more explanatory article mentioned in the post: https://evincarofautumn.blogspot.com/2012/02/why-concatenati...

by willquack

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by omoikane

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> any UTF-8 text (without byte-order marker) defines a valid Om program.
What is the behavior of a program with unmatched braces? I am not sure a stray `}` would fit any of the defined syntax.
https://www.om-language.com/index.html#language__syntax__

by bittermandel

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by maximgeorge

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by esafak

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by jwilber

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Will never not complain about languages not giving code examples. It’s like writing a charting/UI/style library and showing no examples. Just what?