Re: How Lisp's Nested Notation Limits The Language's Utility



Jon Harrop wrote:
Joe Marshall wrote:

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What does BASIC have to do with Lisp?


It also sucks?


Well, so much for the marketing push into the fertile land of Lisp users. Don't feel bad, I could not even sell these yobbos on a /Lisp/ library. And don't forget how warmly they embraced Dylan.

I understand the concept (Lisp is close enough that you might pull people over) but that also means it is a great language you are trying to drag them from, so... yer gonna need a bigger tractor.

You might try looking in the other direction for subscribers, people using something useless and horrible and utterly unlike F#.

hth,kxo

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