2009/11/12 markus schnalke <mei...@marmaro.de>: > Remember: ``Unix is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its > simplicity.'' (dmr)
Not quite sure what point you're trying to make here. Unix has a nice philosophy, there are plenty of poor implementations of that philosophy though. If you're suggesting that Lisp has a nice philosophy, I'm suggesting that in my mind it's a poor implementation of that philosophy. > Isn't that great? It's like ``everything's a file''. Not really. I don't like having forced polish notation for everything, if I did I'd just write everything in ASM. > You mean: It has a not so strange/different syntax. No I mean TCL has a similar concept with lists but implements it with (in my mind) a nicer syntax. Trying to put words into my mouth isn't going to change reality. > My motivation to post in this thread was to point you to a language > that will enhance your view in this discussion. Well you've failed in that attempt. I just don't see anything special about Lisp. You can fallaciously assume that that has something to do with a lack of understanding on my part, and you might even be right, but until you point out what makes Lisp have a cleaner and more logical syntax than C, I just don't see it. Don't get me wrong, there are improvements that could be made to the C syntax, I just don't see that any of them would come from the Lisp syntax.
