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What about Lisps? Also, it would be interesting to read about comparisons between programming languages and naturals ones. What's the most elegant natural langu
by ununun 12y ago
What about Lisps? Also, it would be interesting to read about comparisons between programming languages and naturals ones. What's the most elegant natural language in the world that could be said to be the Scheme of natural languages?
- drostie 12y agoI was surprised that Common Lisp was not Voldemort. You need something powerful, strange, obsessed with a sort of purity even though it's not so pure itself, and whose name no one dares speak. I guess the C/C++ Voldemort/Snape thing was cool though.
- samatman 12y agoFor me, Common Lisp will always be Howl's Moving Castle. http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/11/ejacs-javascript-interpreter-for-emacs.html http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/11/ejacs-javascript-int...
- mdemare 12y agoSalamanca Spanish. Of course, there are 30 dialects of Spanish, many of which are incomprehensible, just like lisp.
- nathell 12y agoClassical Chinese.
- ununun 12y agoI checked out Mandarin the other day. Just a little syntax. From what little I saw, the syntax does seem to be more elegant than that of Western ones(the ones I know), but it still is a far cry from Scheme level elegance :)
- ICWiener 12y agoCommon Lisp: maybe an Animagus, like Sirius Black. Or maybe Alastor Maugrey (Mad Eye), who is quite powerful but is not necessarly attractive.
- ChuckMcM 12y agoI'd definitely make Lisp Mad-Eye Moody, terse, and complex, but quite powerful.
- bloaf 12y agoI like the Sirius Black comparison. Was influential during the previous generation's rise to power but broken promises (A.I. Winter) forced him to scrape by in the background for a while. Nowadays people who know him realize his power, but to most people he is a shady character from the past.