Steven H. Rogers schrieb:
> Lisp has minimal syntax, as does APL, which does make them easy to learn if
> you have no preconceptions about what a programming language should be.
> They're rarely, if ever the first language people learn, so the strange
> appearance is a barrier that offsets the b
Lisp has minimal syntax, as does APL, which does make them easy to learn if
you have no preconceptions about what a programming language should be.
They're rarely, if ever the first language people learn, so the strange
appearance is a barrier that offsets the basic simplicity. They both also
I think Ruby users say the same about Ruby, maybe even more
emphatically than Python users, and Ruby's chart looks like just about
the most complicated one there. C and Python look to be about on par.
Also I suspect a chart of Lisp's grammar would be even simpler than
any of those up there, but I
Please forgive the not-specifically-numpy post. I'll keep it short.
Some of us often, when trying to explain to newcomers the benefits of
Python for scientific work, use expressions like the famous 'it fits
your brain'. This is an attempt at conveying why it seems like such a
natural tool for exp
