It's a sincere no from me, but I can tell you I've met plenty of non-clojurites/lispers who sneer at lisp it seems solely due to the parentheses. It seems misguided to me though.
On Saturday, April 5, 2014 1:14:36 PM UTC-7, Travis Wellman wrote: > > Francois Rey, > > Yes I've been following that project. They're going for purity, which > means reimplementing a lot of standard java stuff in Frege. Cool project, > but what I really want is Clojure. Everything Clojure without the parens. > So you'd get lists, and homoiconicity, and all the Clojure libs, but it > would look different. > > Part of posting here is to gauge whether, if I wrote such a thing to > scratch my own itch, anyone else would like it. So far I'm getting a pretty > sincere "no" it seems. It's partially a bad survey because the people here > are the people who like it here. > > Greg, Xtext is new to me, I'll look at it. Antlr is used in a project I'm > getting paid for right now, so I might try that. > > Gary, I think this is the essence of the maintainability problem. The > terseness of Clojure is pleasurable to the programmer, and they don't > compensate with documentation or longer function names. What you get is a > short statement that requires detangling levels of macros and abstractions > to understand. Honestly I wish programmers had to pay $20 to write a macro. > Macros are great but should very very rarely be used. Granted none of this > would be fundamentally changed with a new syntax, but I feel like if one > didn't begin a line with a paren, one might begin more lines instead of > nesting deeper; I could easily be wrong about that. > > Travis > -- 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/d/optout.
