Re: Very poor Lisp performance

Jon Harrop <usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Jamie Border wrote:
>> Yep, although (because I am biased) I would like to see
>> 'keystroke/mouse-click' count instead. I think that with the requirement
>> for idiomatic variable naming, CL might not come out as 'verbose' as you
>> think...
>
> Is Lisp code not made less maintainable because of all those brackets?

No, it is made more maintainable because of all those brackets,
because it is straightforward to write tools which can manipulate the
textual representation of your program, and because human programmers
do not read the brackets.

Christophe
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