Re: my experience learning perl and common lisp so far

On Oct 23, 1:54 pm, gavino <gavcom...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I will say this:

Emacs with slime is much nicer than perl+vi.

Perl so far is hell because it seems to lack rhyme or reason. Common
lisp and scheme at least seem to have a system that is minimalistic
and flexible. Just the operator precedence and the weird syntax for
forming arrays in perl annoys me. I can only hope that common lisp is
not hamstrung by dealing with files and unix in an inconvenient manner
once I get that far... It is amazing the pressure from linux admin
peers to not go on with lisp. I don't get why they even give a sh--..

All languages are hell. C hasn't figured out how to copy strings
after two tries.

Perl array syntax annoys you? Wait til you get to "0 but true".

--S

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