5 May
2010
5 May
'10
8:24 p.m.
On 6 May 2010 08:25, Gregory Crosswhite
On May 5, 2010, at 3:09 PM, Daniel Fischer wrote:
Learning Lisp dialects is much harder (to a large part because of the parentheses, which makes them near impossible to parse).
On the contrary, the whole point of parentheses is that it makes Lisp *easier* to parse... for computers. :-)
With the added advantage of making it easier for text editors to do automatic indentation properly for precisely the same reason (this is probably the only flaw with Haskell's indentation-centric coding style). -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic Ivan.Miljenovic@gmail.com IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com