can we please remove all the lisp/C talk from this thread. I came here
to see what the dwm folks had to say about go and of course the
remarkable people working on them. And I found a bunch of people that
are not going to convince each other otherwise. If you simply refuse
my question then please t
2009/11/12 markus schnalke :
> You said something like that a quick look at the syntax lets you judge
> if it is clean/nice/whatever or not.
>
> I posted the above quote to show you that even simple things may not
> be easy to see.
I said "It doesn't take long to judge clarity". If it's not easy t
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 08:39:24PM +0100, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
> take network interfaces on Linux for example. they have no device file
> and it makes perfect sense.
No it doesn't.
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because I don't relish the idea of rebuilding them every time.
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On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 06:16:00AM +1100, Jessta wrote:
> Lisp has the 'everything is a list' problem and there is lots of
> behaviour that doesn't fit well in to this. Consistancy can make
> things intuitive, but you shouldn't sacrifice intuitiveness for
> consistancy.
Lisp does not have this pro
On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:16:00 +1100
Jessta wrote:
> The thing is that human beings don't really work well with lots of
> things that are very similar, we get confused. Human beings prefer
> things to be similar enough that we can use our previous knowledge to
> figure them out but different enough
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 03:32:37PM +, Aled Gest wrote:
> Not really. I don't like having forced polish notation for everything,
> if I did I'd just write everything in ASM.
You have no clue what Lisp is. It's a meta-language. See below.
> Well you've failed in that attempt. I just don't see a
On 13/11/2009, Niki Yoshiuchi wrote:
> I think part of what makes Lisp "elegant" and "clean" is the simplicity of
> its grammar. It has the shortest and simplest grammar of all the major
> programming languages.
In fact a simplier grammar is binary notation, it's only got two
characters and you
[2009-11-12 15:32] Aled Gest
> 2009/11/12 markus schnalke :
> >
> > Remember: ``Unix is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its
> > simplicity.'' (dmr)
>
> Not quite sure what point you're trying to make here.
You said something like that a quick look at the syntax lets you judge
if i
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Kurt H Maier wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Niki Yoshiuchi wrote:
> > Here is C++'s grammar:
> http://www.csci.csusb.edu/dick/c++std/cd2/gram.html
> > Here is Lisp's grammar:
> > http://www.devincook.com/goldparser/doc/meta-language/grammar-LISP.htm
>
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Niki Yoshiuchi wrote:
> Here is C++'s grammar: http://www.csci.csusb.edu/dick/c++std/cd2/gram.html
> Here is Lisp's grammar:
> http://www.devincook.com/goldparser/doc/meta-language/grammar-LISP.htm
I don't think I've ever seen a lisp program that conforms to that
I think part of what makes Lisp "elegant" and "clean" is the simplicity of
its grammar. It has the shortest and simplest grammar of all the major
programming languages.
Here is C++'s grammar: http://www.csci.csusb.edu/dick/c++std/cd2/gram.html
Here is Lisp's grammar:
http://www.devincook.com/gold
2009/11/12 markus schnalke :
> Remember: ``Unix is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its
> simplicity.'' (dmr)
Not quite sure what point you're trying to make here. Unix has a nice
philosophy, there are plenty of poor implementations of that
philosophy though. If you're suggesting that
[2009-11-12 02:49] Aled Gest
> 2009/11/11 Antoni Grzymala :
> > Looks like you didn't give more than half a minute's time, to see what
> > Lisp's syntax (or rather the lack of it) is actually about. Your hopes
> > are vain.
>
> It doesn't take long to judge clarity.
Remember: ``Unix is simple.
2009/11/11 Mate Nagy :
> Hello,
>> I'm officially announcing a go excercise project called: godwm (dwm
>> implemented in Go)
> i'd be interested in helping with this
http://hg.suckless.org/godwm
Kind regards,
Anselm
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