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I think it just became irrelevant at some point. Every decent Lisp editor since the 80's will automatically match parens for you, so I don't even notice them a
by adwf 13y ago
I think it just became irrelevant at some point. Every decent Lisp editor since the 80's will automatically match parens for you, so I don't even notice them anymore, unless I specifically need to do something special with them.
Then when you add in other little features that you can do in emacs, like fading the parens close to background colour when you're not working on them, highlighting when you are, etc... It all adds up to make the old "parenthesis hell" a bit nonsense.
I sometimes imagine that there must've been a stage when universities forced people to write Lisp in Notepad or something, or by hand maybe. I can't imagine how much that would drive me insane!
- eropple 13y agoConsider that most people writing Lisp or Scheme for schools are probably not using great editors. When I took a class with Scheme, the recommended editor was GEdit or Notepad++. It wasn't until I switched to Kate that I had colored parens.
- adwf 13y agoThat's quite a scary thought. It's like trying to program with one hand tied behind your back and only your little finger to poke out the keys...
- hajile 13y agoThis is simply the ignorance of academics. What they SHOULD be recommending for these languages is Vim or EMACS with EVIL (got to keep sane keybindings somehow). The problem is that many programmers and academics today are unwilling to take the time to learn the right tools for the job.
- blueblob 13y agoboth gedit and notepad++ have plugins for colored parens.