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> complaint against verbosity Not an unjustified one, in fairness. Lisp tends to prefer long, descriptive names.
by moonchild 5y ago
> complaint against verbosity
Not an unjustified one, in fairness. Lisp tends to prefer long, descriptive names.
- e3bc54b2 5y agoAgreed. Even more of a reason to not make + into add and - into subtr. I've thought about how the verbosity can be avoided, but at certain level of complexity, it is better to have long descriptive names, but I'm not experienced enough with big projects to propose a solution.
- lispm 5y agoit also has macro forms which expand into zillions of 'lines of code' during compilation