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That's the easiest and most superficial rationalization for not bothering to try a Lisp (any Lisp), but also the least compelling argument against it, and likel
by dreish 17y ago
That's the easiest and most superficial rationalization for not bothering to try a Lisp (any Lisp), but also the least compelling argument against it, and likely not even the most significant actual reason you haven't bothered to learn it.
- huherto 17y agoIt may not be a fundamental problem for people that know it well. But, first impressions matter nonetheless. Edit:Spelling
- pilif 17y agoI was joking about the syntax and the way how I just can't wrap my brain around reading lisp and matching parentheses. I was not joking about the recursive and functional nature of Lisp, both of which I'm finding very interesting (and my coworker is, in fact, a big fan of Haskell)
- peregrine 17y agoThe editor should help you use parens. http://code.google.com/p/counterclockwise/wiki/ScreenShots#Source_code_Editor http://code.google.com/p/counterclockwise/wiki/ScreenShots#S... Rainbow parens are really helpful and so is automatic paren matching....