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Making sense of those parentheses is genuinely hard for a newcomer, too. The Scheme version is more readable to you because you already know it - anyone who's a
by geofft 5y ago
Making sense of those parentheses is genuinely hard for a newcomer, too. The Scheme version is more readable to you because you already know it - anyone who's actually working through this with a class level of effort instead of skimming pages is going to spend an equal amount of time learning how to read the syntax you quoted, and they'll be fine once they do.
- hajile 5y agoJS is the WORST of both worlds. With the scheme version, you have straight-up trees to work with. With the Javascript version, you have to learn all about parsing rules and gotchas and then you STILL wind up with trees for everything.