On 7 June 2011 07:08, Thomas de Grivel <billi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Before even thinking of "fixing it" i'm trying to see if i'm alone in my > quest. I like code correctness and feel what's done in OpenBSD is epic given > the shitty language all the devs are dealing with. I love this much epic. >
Please, C is very far from shitty, C is wonderful, although not perfect and not "easily-parseable". > Now if you want to know what code I'm writing, first I'm writing english > because as you can see when a bring s-exp i'm answered "asm" and > "brainfuck". Seriously did you even google the thing ? > Check your facts again, and see who said what, I'm quite fond of scheme. > And i never criticized the semantics of the code. Just that it's a 1 month > project to build a fudgy C lexer, when parsing s-exp is more powerful and > takes 2 days while watching pr0n, and 2 hours without. > > This is clearly off topic, and don't mean to rewrite an OS but there clearly > is a need for cleaner programming languages in this world. I used to love C > and i'm still quite proficient at it but when i had a glimpse of Lisp i > realized how narrow was my vision of programming. And how much i trusted the > languages i used to mean something. You're just passing though a *phase*, that's ok, it happens to all of us when we learn lisp. I'd advice getting back to reality now. Now, think again, parsing a language is nice, but it's almost never the most important thing. You also should not try to convert old school unix hackers into lispers, there may be rape.
