Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 11:20:28 01/24/04
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On January 24, 2004 at 13:55:47, Sune Fischer wrote: >On January 24, 2004 at 09:59:40, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>I am not sure what "statements" you are referring to. If you find it easy to >>read someone else's Lisp code, then that's good. However, on many occasions I >>found myself having to work on something someone else wrote, I never found Lisp >>to be the easiest kind of program to work on. >> >>If you disagree, that's fine by me... > >I have often found an inverse relation between what is good in the long run and >what is easy here and now. > >I don't know Lisp at all, but it could be one of those things you really grow to >love _if_ you can be open minded enough to get past that initial resentment. > >-S. All new languages are like that. In fact, bitboards are like that. :) But in this case, I don't have any "resentment" since I used it for quite a while years ago in teaching an AI class. However, I also used prolog for the same reason although I don't use it today much, either... Nor APL, or PL/1 nor Snobol4, even though all are good tools.
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