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Paul Graham is often saying that the value of Lisp is in large part due to its being so concise. If we have to throw away four lines every time we have a moder
by MikeTaylor 17y ago
Paul Graham is often saying that the value of Lisp is in large part due to its being so concise. If we have to throw away four lines every time we have a moderately complex arithmetic expression, we're losing quality.
... none of which is to say that Lisp Is Bad (which is certainly not the point I was trying to make in the original article) -- just that the good points are to some degree balanced by some bad ones, and Lisp evangelists don't ultimately help their cause by pretending that even the bad bits are good.
- pavelludiq 17y agoThere is nothing stopping you from writing gigantic one-liners in lisp, thats not the same as conciseness. Anyway, my point was that arithmetic doesn't mater that much, if you like the lisp notation, thats fine, if you hate it, you can at least manage it with proper indentation. Its a minuscule annoyance for me.