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- Subject: Re: (kick,ass): => kick( ass ) ::
- From: Miles Bader <miles@...>
- Date: 2010年2月08日 10:01:33 +0900
Norman Ramsey <nr@cs.tufts.edu> writes:
> > I was focusing on the look of the code. You may not like the
> > paretheses, but IMHO, in terms of elegance there's Scheme and then
> > there's everything else.
>
> I think Haskell offers some decent competition, but I respect your opinion.
>
> I have observed as a matter of empirical fact (not opinion) that the
> parentheses are a barrier for many people---just as many people find
> S-expression syntax supremely elegant. I happen to be one of those people
> for whom the parentheses are a barrier. This means I can appreciate Lisp
> and Scheme only as long as I don't have to get anything done ;-)
I _like_ lisp (and scheme by extension), so I have no problem at all
with the appearance but the other points about scheme are pretty valid I
think.
As a portable/minimalist/tiny/fast/easy-to-interface/no-dialect-wars
language, Lua seems to be a lot more practical, and Lua is in many ways
as powerful and elegant as scheme (which is where many tiny extension
languages fail)...
I suppose it demonstrates the importance of a standard high-quality
implementation.
-Miles
--
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra. Suddenly it flips over,
pinning you underneath. At night the ice weasels come. --Nietzsche
- References:
- (kick,ass): => kick( ass ) ::, Pierre-Yves Gérardy
- Re: (kick,ass): => kick( ass ) ::, Mark Hamburg
- Re: (kick,ass): => kick( ass ) ::, Majic
- Re: (kick,ass): => kick( ass ) ::, joao lobato
- Re: (kick,ass): => kick( ass ) ::, Norman Ramsey
- Re: (kick,ass): => kick( ass ) ::, joao lobato
- Re: (kick,ass): => kick( ass ) ::, Norman Ramsey