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Speak for yourself, I find the lisp syntax to be among the easiest to read.
by davexunit 3y ago
Speak for yourself, I find the lisp syntax to be among the easiest to read.
- norir 3y agoI am not a lisp hater. There are advantages to its syntax relative to other languages. I am just saying that in the space of programming languages, there exist other languages capable of solving the same problems as lisp in essentially the same way using fewer characters simply by removing some of the excessive parens and adding syntactic support for the most common operations (assignment, scoping, calling functions, data structure instantiation). Even if the total characters is a wash, not having to chase down dangling missed closed brackets or rely on an external tool to highlight 15 levels of parens and/or auto insert 10 ugly parens at thee end of a nested code block is a nice QOL improvement in my opinion. Again, none of this is saying that lisp is bad. I just think we can have nicer things and preserve the important semantic insights that lisp gives us.
- lispm 3y ago> not having to chase down dangling missed closed brackets or rely on an external tool to highlight 15 levels of parens and/or auto insert 10 ugly parens at thee end of a nested code block is a nice QOL improvement in my opinion. Development environments with syntax support are common. These are not "external", they are nowadays "integrated". See the features of typical Java IDEs. Java uses tools to edit code, so does Lisp.