On 19 Dec 2009, at 13:50, Stefan Kamphausen wrote: > Hi, > > On 18 Dez., 20:07, Martin Coxall <pseudo.m...@me.com> wrote: >> One of the things that always puts people off of Lisp, as we all know, are >> the parentheses. > > one of the things that always put Lispers off is this same question. > > I have three arguments to make. Love, reason and trust. > > * Love. Parentheses are an advantage, you will learn to love them if > you start some serious hacking.
I've seriously hacked in many languages, and have come to rely on the presence of Syntax. If Clojure wants me to seriously believe that syntax is overrated, it had better had a bloody go argument. > * Reason. They could have been taken away in more than 50 years of > history. Guess what, they are still there. Guess what? NOBODY uses Lisp. Because of those parens. > If I came to lisp as a > newbie, I would think that there must be some reason. > * Trust. Just trust all the people telling you over and over again for > ages, just trust all the fine software engineers who kept them in > place for a very long time. I trust the many, many more people that have rejected Lisp for its hostile syntax and delusions of importance than the statistically insignificant minority who have actually stuck with it. Martin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
