On Wed, 5 Jan 2011, Ben Finney wrote: > > Tomasz Rola <rto...@ceti.com.pl> writes:
> > Heh. One day, guys, when you have nothing better to do, try writing a > > parser for Lisp-like language (Common Lisp, Scheme, whatever). After > > that, do the same with some other language of your preference (Python, > > Java, whatever). Compare time and code spent... > Perhaps Lisp is a simpler language to parse than Python. > Perhaps a machine with only one instruction > <URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_instruction_set_computer> is > simpler to implement than one with a broader instruction set. > So what? So... nothing at all. My intention was to point out that parentheses (or rather, simple syntax that is enabled when using them) can give a boost in some situations. BTW, my own experience tells me, they are not really as bad as some folk tales imply. Of course, there is also esthetic reason - some people don't like parentheses, period. I am ok with this. Me, OTOH, I have esthetic incompatibility with Perl and to some extent with PHP. No problem for me :-). Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:tomasz_r...@bigfoot.com ** -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
