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I can imagine people not liking lisp if they've used a dumb text editor to try writing it, but if using something a bit more intelligent like ParEdit+emacs, the
by sparkie 13y ago
I can imagine people not liking lisp if they've used a dumb text editor to try writing it, but if using something a bit more intelligent like ParEdit+emacs, the closing parens become a non-issue, they're added for you, and you're given a nice set of commands to navigate around s-expressions.
- angersock 13y agoThere is a point beyond which the syntax of a language becomes unforgivable, even if you have an IDE to make it more palatable. Java, for example, is completely awful to write (I find) without the use of Eclipse or some similar tool. C and Ruby, by contrast, I'm happy to hack on in Vim.