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> why are you opposed to people presenting the ideas with different notation What are you talking about? I'm not opposed to anything, I don't know where that c
by iLemming 4mo ago
> why are you opposed to people presenting the ideas with different notation
What are you talking about? I'm not opposed to anything, I don't know where that conclusion comes from. I'm just trying to explain why people hate s-expressions. Because of the unfamiliarity. I remember the time before I convinced myself to give Lisp a try - I'd look at it with all my previous knowledge of other programming languages and just didn't see it. I thought it was "unreadable", "weird", and had no merits in the "modern" world of computing. I was convinced that Lisp is archaic and there's no practical reason to use it. I was wrong on all counts. Learning Lisp and using it in real projects made me appreciate programming more, it taught me things that I haven't imagined before, my only regret that I didn't do it sooner.
- lmm 4mo ago> I'm not opposed to anything, I don't know where that conclusion comes from. I'm just trying to explain why people hate s-expressions. You seemed to be implicitly claiming that there was no point presenting the ideas with a different syntax. You're making very strident claims based on very little evidence. Maybe you're right, but I think we should at least entertain the possibility that people who think they hate s-expressions actually do hate s-expressions - which would be an ample explanation for why those people never got into Lisp.
- iLemming 4mo agoI expanded on it here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48689592 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48689592