[EMAIL PROTECTED] ha escrito: > Juan R. wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha escrito: > > > - Lisp is hard to learn (because of all those parenthesis) > > > > I cannot understand why. It is like if you claim that packaging things > > in boxes is difficult to learn. > > > > HTML and XML have more brackets than LISP (usually double) for > > structuring data and everyone has learned HTML. > > I think maybe you missed the point I was making.
Yes i did, sorry > To make it clearer I'm saying that the arguments that are being made > over and over again against Lisp in this thread have been the > antithesis of my experience since moving from Python to Lisp. > > I just prefer personal experience to popular misconceptions :-) I often count 'parentheses' used in other approaches. E.g. the LISP-based [HTML [@:XMLNS http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml] [HEAD [TITLE Test page]] [BODY]] is SLiP (Python) html(xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";): head(): title(): "Test page" body(): LISP-based: 5 ( 5 ) 1 @ 1 : Python: 4 ( 4 ) 1 = 4 " 4 : -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
