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From: | prad |
Subject: | Re: How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel functional language to the level of FORTH ? |
Date: | Sat, 01 Jan 2011 11:22:15 -0800 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) |
girosenth <girosenth@india.com> writes: > How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel > functional language to the level of FORTH ? > having come to lisp from haskell which i thought was very elegant, i was initially dismayed by the increased verbosity and those parentheses. however, now haskell looks funny and lisp reads beautifully, so part of it is no doubt a matter of usage. i also found that working down rather than across helps a lot. so instead of (setq whatever (func1 (func2 x y) (func3 a b)) this sort of thing is often preferable (setq whatever (func1 (func2 x y) (func3 a b))) -- in friendship, prad
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