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I disagree, at school we studied both C and LISP during the same semester, writing a lot of similar things in procedural Vs functional styles... I can assure yo
by jcelerier 5y ago
I disagree, at school we studied both C and LISP during the same semester, writing a lot of similar things in procedural Vs functional styles... I can assure you that most people (who didn't have any programming exposure) really preferred C
- Banana699 5y agoThis data point is confounded by lisp's weird syntax, I would expect people not used to programming to hate the excessive indentation and nestedness that lisp's syntax does to expressions.
- jcelerier 5y agofrom my memories it was much more the equational thinking required which was a hard conceptual leap. Most people are really not used to it.