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Sure, and when you write an expression more complex than a single ternary, you start to see why Lisp is so uncommon in real-world usage. It has a wonderful tec
by byuu 13y ago
Sure, and when you write an expression more complex than a single ternary, you start to see why Lisp is so uncommon in real-world usage.
It has a wonderful technical elegance, but the humans that have to write code tend to not think in the same sense. After four or five brace levels it gets very challenging to keep track of everything.
- patricius 13y agoI think that can be said also of most mainstream languages, i.e., that more complex expressions are less comprehensible. The same applies to increasing levels of nesting. Lisp's syntax is so different that it just looks less comprehensible than any language you're more familiar with.