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I agree for the most part; with persistence it can be overcome. But why make anything harder to learn than it has to be? `long_descriptive_variable_name` gives
by rectangletangle 12y ago
I agree for the most part; with persistence it can be overcome. But why make anything harder to learn than it has to be? `long_descriptive_variable_name` gives you a lot more useful information than `:++-`. What's the benefit of making a language look like runes? For this reason alone, I find LISP to be easier to read.
- arethuza 12y agoI did terrible things with reader macros back in my Common Lisp days so I probably can't comment on how readable my code was to other people. Certainly the people I acquired the reader macro abuse habit from produced some files that when I first opened them I didn't think they were Lisp at all.... :-) NB I'm glad to have got those tendencies out of my system in academia where it did relatively little harm to others.