Re: This Lispofobics really gone too far


<antoanjamison@xxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> First , Jokes about pages of closing parenthesis
> Second, Threads why Lisp is not popular and that we all should switch
> to python
> Now this :(I wonder why he gave it 5 star , probably to sound more
> impressive)
>
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1590592395/qid=1115200740/sr=8
-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/002-1151321-2940016?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
>
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> "In what the hell is this written in ?"
> Even after 8 months, and countless hours working
> on the code i still can't answer that.
> The whole program is a one big macro , when i
> macroexpand it , got a code large enaphe to fill
> Paul Grahams' On Lisp , book (around 400 pages)
....
Fancy, when I did my first job in Lisp I had the very opposite experience.
Although the code was at least partly *really* far from being perfect, I
found it utterly easy to read. Even mistakes programmers made have been
relatively obvious to me when reading/debugging the first time. Despite of
'all the parentheses' I found it uncomparable easy to read Lisp code. I
think this is partly because Lisp code is relatively short. At this point I
knew Lisp for about four month. I remember I did the first change to the
code on the first day I was working in the company. OK, I was roughly
prepared before but this was an astonishing experience.

Andreas



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