Re: [Readable-discuss] If back-compatibility was not an issue...

2013-02-21 Thread David A. Wheeler
Alan Manuel Gloria: > If back compatibility with Lisp in general was not an issue, what I > thought I'd do was, I'd be like this: ... At that point, of course, it's a completely new language, not just a new notation. Nothing wrong with new languages, of course. Indeed, historically Haskell grew

Re: [Readable-discuss] If back-compatibility was not an issue...

2013-02-21 Thread Alan Manuel Gloria
I just want to warn that this is entirely non-serious, except it is. If you didn't have to worry about back-compat, what would you do? On 2/21/13, Alan Manuel Gloria wrote: > If back compatibility with Lisp in general was not an issue, what I > thought I'd do was, I'd be like this: > > 1. Disall