Ken Tilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > yeah, I think it is. Folks don't vary that much. If every Lisp > programmer also reports parens disappearing at about thirty days, any > given non-Lispnik can pretty much bet on the same experience.
I think an editing program that balances parens automatically is near indispensible for writing Lisp code. I can't stand writing Lisp without Emacs. > My suspicion goes the other way, and is based not on punctuation, > rather on imperative vs functional. In Lisp every form returns a > value, so I do not have all these local variables around that, in the > strecth of an interesting function, take on a stream of values and > transformations to finally come up with some result, meaning to > understand code I have to jump back and forth thru the code to see the > lineage of a value and figure out its net semantics. Too much like work. Python has been steadily getting better in this regard. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
