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That's exactly right--kind of like working with an RPN calculator or staring at one of those "is it a vase or two faces?" pictures. Further, once the brain fli
by peatmoss 10y ago
That's exactly right--kind of like working with an RPN calculator or staring at one of those "is it a vase or two faces?" pictures.
Further, once the brain flip happens, languages that don't use S-expressions start to feel uncomfortably... uncontained.
- hashkb 10y agoLisp critics have heard this argument, and are choosing to continue hating on the parens. It's easy to find a superficial reason to hate things.
- kazinator 10y agoYes; that argument actually has to be experienced and no only heard. In my experience, the parens nonsense comes almost entirely from programmers with no Lisp coding experience. It's based on "that looks as if it might be hard to edit".
- peatmoss 10y agoWhich is why lisp proponents have such a hard time understanding lisp critics: "Wait, you mean you were willing to reason through pointer arithmetic, monads, implementing a b-tree, etc. but you simply saw the parens and decided that would forever be the thing that you cannot, will not overcome? I mean in spite of all the fairly objective benefits of having a perfectly regular syntax, and code that can be processed by computers?"