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If we were talking about purely functional languages, then I would agree. But Lisp isn't purely functional; it has assignment and loops and arrays and all the
by rkts 18y ago
If we were talking about purely functional languages, then I would agree. But Lisp isn't purely functional; it has assignment and loops and arrays and all the rest. You can program in the subset of Lisp that allows the same "mental model" as C and get the same results without worrying about pointers or buffer overflows. So I think Lisp is strictly easier.
- jsmcgd 18y agoThe fact that you only have one way of programming in C, 'the C way', can actually be a blessing. I've found that I've been paralyzed by the flexibility of Lisp. There are so many different ways to do the same thing that it is hard to choose between them.