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[Gnu-arch-users] Re: Tla spork
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
[Gnu-arch-users] Re: Tla spork |
Date: |
26 Aug 2004 18:10:44 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 |
> Then, on two and a half occasions, over the following few years,
> I actually went through the first hour of the guile tutorial,
> perhaps a year or more apart between each attempt.
I really would like to understand, what's the big difference between writing
things as
if (a) { b } else { c }
or as
(if a b c)
I mean, yes, there are differences in terms of legibility, but if you ignore
such details, it's really all the same.
The only real difference is that Lisp's syntax, like XML, is layered such
that a fixed generic parser can parse the first layer, while the second
layer (where semantics is added) can be manipulated as data structure.
But when you're writing programs, it makes no difference whatsoever.
So if you could try to explain to me why you find Lisp/Scheme so hard, I'd
love to try and understand you.
Stefan
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Tla spork, (continued)
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Tla spork, James Blackwell, 2004/08/24
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Tla spork, Tom Lord, 2004/08/24
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Tla spork, James Blackwell, 2004/08/24
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Tla spork, Tom Lord, 2004/08/24
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Tla spork, James Blackwell, 2004/08/25
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Tla spork, tomas, 2004/08/26
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Tla spork, Zenaan Harkness, 2004/08/26
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Tla spork,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Tla spork, Zenaan Harkness, 2004/08/26
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Tla spork, Miles Bader, 2004/08/26
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Tla spork, Mikhael Goikhman, 2004/08/26
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Tla spork, Miles Bader, 2004/08/27
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Tla spork, Zenaan Harkness, 2004/08/27
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Tla spork, Miles Bader, 2004/08/27
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Tla spork, James Blackwell, 2004/08/27
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Tla spork, Stefan Monnier, 2004/08/27
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Tla spork, James Blackwell, 2004/08/27
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Tla spork, Miles Bader, 2004/08/27