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This feels like it's fallen back into a more boring criticism: you just don't like Lisp's syntax. Ok, fine, everyone has a criticism about every other programmi
by _delirium 10y ago
This feels like it's fallen back into a more boring criticism: you just don't like Lisp's syntax. Ok, fine, everyone has a criticism about every other programming language's syntax. Maybe I hate Python's mandatory indentation. These kinds of criticisms are not really the most interesting ones though.
- feelsboutlisps 10y agoI don't think you can put those things on the same scale. I think it's telling that you dismiss Lisp's syntax like it's unimportant rather than acknowledging that it's the several hundred lb elephant in the room whenever it comes to talking about lisps. What I'm arguing is that Lispers say that all the parens and lack of other, more expressive constructs are worth it because you get macros. I'm arguing that's a bad trade-off, because 1. that's a big sacrifice, 2. macros aren't a win.
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoWell, the macros and read macros mean that you can "get back" those constructs.