Author: Tord Romstad
Date: 10:37:25 01/21/06
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On January 21, 2006 at 13:28:33, Alessandro Scotti wrote:
>Eh eh... as you know, the parenthesis joke is practically automatic when it
>comes to Lisp! :-)
Yes, of course. And we make the same joke ourselves. Back at the
time when I was still a professional Lisp programmer, whenever
somebody asked me what I was doing for a living, I replied that
I was typing parenthesises. :-)
I have even modified my keyboard layout so that I no longer have
to use the Shift key to type '(' and ')'.
>When I first saw a C program, I had only experience with a few Assembly
>dialects, Basic and Pascal... I remember staring in horror at the unintelligible
>syntax with more punctuaction symbols than letters! 8-O
>But with time, you get used to everything.
Yes, you do. In Lisp, I hardly notice the parens at all, and when
programming on paper I omit most of them. I read code by
indentation, not by counting parens. My editor does all the
work of balancing the parens correctly.
>Today, I need to look at Perl to feel the same... ;-)
Yeah, Perl is one of the tougher ones to get used to. :-)
Tord
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