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Codes are read much more often than written. paredit makes editing parens easier, but reading them is still difficult for the unskilled (rainbow parens help, b
by xiaq 12y ago
Codes are read much more often than written.
paredit makes editing parens easier, but reading them is still difficult for the unskilled (rainbow parens help, but it's still far from painless). Compare this to how autocompletion makes it easier to write a VeryVeryVeryVeryVeryVeryVeryLongMethodName but doesn't make it any easier to read.
- agumonkey 12y agoI don't know, properly abstracted LISP code is 'supposed' to be tiny (you have all you need to write nice DSL/API) so you don't have long winded things on screen. And I have a differing opinion about code meant to be read. This is a side effect of syntaxful languages read statically in buffer editors. You want to understand LISP ? you load the code, play with and evaluate sub expressions, and sexps/paredit is of great help here.