On 8 Aug 2013, at 16:29, Tim Daly <d...@axiom-developer.org> wrote: >> Find me a person who fluently used paredit that stopped and reverted back to >> manual parenthesis manipulation. > > /me raises my hand. > > Structural editing was useful in LispVM (on IBM mainframes) where the > display was 12 lines by 40 characters. It might also be useful for the > iPad lisping app. If your IDE uses 80% of your display for buttons, > lines, and icons I can see where it would be useful, since most of the > text area is gone. > > However, I've been programming in lisp for 42 years on everything from > punched cards to mega-displays. I find that keeping structure and > counting parens is like finishing a thought. It just happens. I don't > remember the last time I had a paren-balance bug. I've spent the last 13 > years rewriting and refactoring Axiom which is 1.2 million lines of lisp > code so I have a fair sized sample as a test case. > > I find that programming occurs "in my head" and that the computer is > only useful for recording the results. For me, smart editing and IDEs > get in my way, like a helpful newbie in a metal shop. > > Then again I don't use IDEs. If it works for you, go for it.
Super interesting - thanks for sharing this. The fact that this list contains such a broad range of such interesting people is a real asset to the Clojure community. Sam --- http://sam.aaron.name -- -- 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.
