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From: | Didier Verna |
Subject: | Re: How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel functional language to the level of FORTH ? |
Date: | Mon, 03 Jan 2011 11:29:02 +0100 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) XEmacs/21.5-b29 (linux) |
Nathan <nbeenken@gmail.com> wrote: > Matz himself admitted that “...Ruby is a bad rip-off of Lisp... But it > is nicer to ordinary people.” Which of course is a very sorry thing to say. Ruby is not nicer to ordinary people. It's nicer to people having already been brainwashed by languages full of syntax noise. At most, he could have said "to the majority of people". There is litterature and evidence out there that Lisp is just good enough for ordinary people as well, when it's their first programming experience. This misconception that you must be exceptionally clever to learn and use Lisp really hurts the language and the community. -- Resistance is futile. You will be jazzimilated. Scientific site: http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~didier Music (Jazz) site: http://www.didierverna.com
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