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"This stuff" was referring to the entry point. I didn't complain about parenthesis. ASM's syntax is also extremely simple, but that doesn't make it easy to use
by ahoge 11y ago
"This stuff" was referring to the entry point.
I didn't complain about parenthesis. ASM's syntax is also extremely simple, but that doesn't make it easy to use, does it? If everything looks the same, it's hard to scan.
C-like languages provide more visual hooks than Lisp dialects.
- brlewis 11y agoI'm currently using Java and Javascript for work. Previously I used Scheme. I do find that scanning is important in Java and JavaScript because often you don't need to read a whole section, just a piece. Back when I worked with Scheme, if I didn't need to read a whole section, generally the part I needed to know was right at the beginning. I think all Lisp dialects work this way. The worst example is immediate function application in JavaScript. You get to the end and all of a sudden the }(); tells you everything you've just read is a different context than you thought it was. In Scheme (and probably most Lisps) you'd recognize immediate function application at the beginning as soon as you saw ((. I don't know how people get really good at JavaScript without learning Scheme first.
- ahoge 11y ago> You get to the end and all of a sudden the }(); With most code conventions, you wrap immediately invoked function expressions (IIFEs) in parens: var foo = (function () { ... }()); The only purpose of those extra parens is to act as marker. Well, with block scope (`let` & `const`), IIFEs aren't really needed anymore.