On Thursday, August 6, 2020 at 10:52:00 AM UTC-5, Chris Angelico wrote: > The point of learning a > language isn't that you can take a piece of pre-existing code and > figure out what it'll do, step by step; the point is to be able to > encode your intentions in that language, and to read the code and > understand the other programmer's intentions.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. How do you define "expressiveness"? Also, why is Python syntax able to more clearly communicate intentions? Both Python and Lisp have comments so that isn't it. cs -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
