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Light gray, then ;-P Srsly, looking past the brackets is the least problem in reading lisp. The harder part is dealing with the lack of syntax, so you have to
by JulianMorrison 17y ago
Light gray, then ;-P
Srsly, looking past the brackets is the least problem in reading lisp. The harder part is dealing with the lack of syntax, so you have to remember place structures instead of picking up hints from the punctuation. And in that regard, Pythonic indenting makes it harder.
- eru 17y agoPerhaps we should go the Haskell route instead of the Python one?
- coliveira 17y agoSome IDEs (Alegro CL, cusp eclipse) display the arguments for all known forms and functions.
- mahmud 17y agos/some/all/g Nearly every Lisp development environment does that. SLIME, the poster child of excess does this as well. I don't think I matched parenthesis, indented or looked up a documentation since 2005.
- JulianMorrison 17y agoDoesn't help you if what you are trying to do is read code, rather than write it.