APL!

Mine‘s Lisp.

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Wow. Honestly, thank you! I had entirely forgot that this wiki even exists. I’ve bookmarked your reply. :-)

Thank you, the subshell idea is a good one!

Ah, I could probably use Perl or something as well. I was hoping awk could do it though. But thank you, I hadn’t heard about pyp before!

You wouldn’t be able to split up expressions like this

Ah, that already answers my original question. A pity!

Sure, but that’s inside a string:

$ printf "This is a   # let's break \
> long line."
This is a   # let's break long line.

awk remains unimpressed:

$ echo "This is a test.
> It has three lines, so I can
> test awk on it." | awk '
> NR>2    # Skip two lines. \
> { print $2 }   # should only print "awk"
> '
is
has
test awk on it.
awk

Wouldn’t the backslash be a part of the comment?

The same is just as true for LaTeX: it’s a great, intuitive language

Curious troff noises

-No spying

depending on the distro

-No ads

depending on the distro

-Can uninstall anything you don’t want

How can you uninstall systemd?

Double Commander is a multi-platform clone of Total Commander. You couldn’t even see the difference after some configuration.

LOL, Model M. Fucking newbies.

Typed on my Model F.

I want a simple desktop with small elements to maximize real estate for windows.

Maybe a tiling (or optionally-tiling) window manager would be a good choice then? No elements! :)

Or try Slackware -CURRENT. Not Debian-based, but quality control is awesome. There even is an apt simulator for it.

I wish nano wouldn’t destroy line endings.

Try Emacs.

Depends on your religion, I guess.

Thank you, that helps me a lot. :-)

You can make embarrassing mistakes in virtually any programming language that’s not too esoteric.

When I still used Python for prototyping (today, I usually use Go for that), it happened much too often that I did this:

if foo:
    bar()
   foobar() # syntax error

In Lisp, however, both errors are much harder to make (not even considering GNU Emacs’s superb auto-indentation - which is what most Lispers use these days, as far as I know):

(when foo)  ;; <- obvious!
    (bar))

(when foo
    (bar)
          (foobar)  ;; <- still valid
(quux))  ;; <- also still valid