Lee Spector <lspec...@hampshire.edu> writes: > On Aug 8, 2013, at 3:34 AM, Robert Stuttaford wrote: > >> Lee has a valid point. Lee's point is: let me decide. Put paredit in, but >> let me turn it off if I want. >> >> I agree that paredit is the only sane way for me and for anyone who doesn't >> have Lee's muscle memory to overcome. But for Lee, paredit is 'doing it >> wrong', because he doesn't enjoy it and he's unproductive that way. And that >> trumps any particular language, tool, paradigm, what-have-you. >> >> I mean, there are some people who are perfectly productive and happy in C++. >> If that's possible, then anything is :-) > > I'm happy to drop this after this message too. I just couldn't let such an > unnecessarily insulting email stand without a response
I think he was trying to support you actually. He's saying "it doesn't work for you, which means it's the wrong tool!" > And one other part of my dislike comes from my work teaching new programmers, > who have enough to learn and overcome without having to rethink the concept of > editing before turning (a b (c d)) into (a (b c d)), which they could do > effortlessly in a normal editor. I can see this as a problem, although, there again new programmers are likely to have problems getting parens balanced. I've never taught lisp to new programmers, but given the difficult those I have taught Java have with brace/paren matching, I guess it's a problem. It's always hard to know when to bring in tools, especially the ones that are really useful, but have a learning curve. Phil -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
