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Re: Casting as wide a net as possible
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Casting as wide a net as possible |
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Thu, 10 Dec 2015 21:50:52 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
John Wiegley <address@hidden> writes:
>>>>>> David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Kind of unconventional as an advertisement though it has its
>> charm. But there is a (rather simple) _read_ syntax for data
>> structures. Just no separate program syntax.
>
> This distinction is meaningless to those we're trying to attract. What
> I meant is "what you type". It's highly consistent in that regard,
> whatever you choose to call it.
Regarding readability to humans, it's a disadvantage and I don't think
we will gain points by trying to sell it as an advantage. If we want to
sell an advantage, it is the easy structure-preserving manipulation of
Lisp code that Lisp code can do. That's the cart, and the simple read
syntax is the horse pulling it.
I mean, I don't sell Modern Greek as "highly consistent vowel
pronunciation" because all of ει, υ, υι, η, ῃ, αι, οι, ι (did I forget
any?) are pronounced the same.
At any rate, I don't think I have anything worthwhile to add that I
didn't say already, and I am not the one writing the advertisement
either.
--
David Kastrup
- Re: Casting as wide a net as possible (was: First draft of the Emacs website), (continued)
- Re: Casting as wide a net as possible (was: First draft of the Emacs website), Eli Zaretskii, 2015/12/10
- RE: Casting as wide a net as possible (was: First draft of the Emacs website), Drew Adams, 2015/12/10
- Re: Casting as wide a net as possible, John Wiegley, 2015/12/10
- Re: Casting as wide a net as possible, David Kastrup, 2015/12/10
- Re: Casting as wide a net as possible, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/12/10
- Re: Casting as wide a net as possible, David Kastrup, 2015/12/10
- Re: Casting as wide a net as possible, John Wiegley, 2015/12/10
- Re: Casting as wide a net as possible,
David Kastrup <=
- Re: Casting as wide a net as possible, Richard Stallman, 2015/12/11
- Re: Casting as wide a net as possible, covici, 2015/12/10
- Re: Casting as wide a net as possible, Marcin Borkowski, 2015/12/10
- Re: Casting as wide a net as possible, Adrian . B . Robert, 2015/12/14
- Re: Casting as wide a net as possible, raman, 2015/12/14
- Re: Casting as wide a net as possible, John Wiegley, 2015/12/14
Re: Casting as wide a net as possible (was: First draft of the Emacs website), Richard Stallman, 2015/12/11
Re: Casting as wide a net as possible, Filipp Gunbin, 2015/12/14