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LISPers know the syntax is clunky but they are OK with it because it makes it super easy to create macros.
by ufo 13y ago
LISPers know the syntax is clunky but they are OK with it because it makes it super easy to create macros.
- agumonkey 13y agoI never found it clunky, at worst blurry (only one visible syntactic marker) but it was pretty beautiful and timeless. Beside macros, with non string-buffer editors, you get very very fast and calm typing or I should say low level refactoring. Finally it has this weird quality of really looking like static data (relation v1 v2 v3) most of the time and really not like a cryptic (by the number of delimiters {} () , ; ) state dependent imperative notation. Makes you really think about how to interpret data rather than send commands to a machine.