Author: Alessandro Scotti
Date: 10:28:33 01/21/06
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On January 21, 2006 at 12:45:04, Tord Romstad wrote: >On January 21, 2006 at 11:49:03, James Swafford wrote: > >>On January 21, 2006 at 02:02:25, Dann Corbit wrote: >> >>>Who wants a chess engine consisting almost entirely of parenthesis? >> >>Surely you can do better than "the syntax sucks." > >I am pretty sure Dann was joking. A similar joke about >C would be to say that nobody would want a chess engine >consisting almost entirely of semicolons, asterisks and >curly braces. Eh eh... as you know, the parenthesis joke is practically automatic when it comes to Lisp! :-) 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. Today, I need to look at Perl to feel the same... ;-)
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