Saturday, December 12, 2009

LISP's non-C-style syntax has something for everyone! For LISP users, they don't have to use C-style syntax. For non-LISP users, they can pretend that the reason they don't use LISP is something silly like the syntax, instead of admitting that they're too committed to their existing thought model of programming.

If you don't want to use LISP, that's totally fine with me. There is a beautiful diversity of programming languages out there (and even if you want to use C/C++/Java, that's still perfectly wonderful, keep at it you brilliant prince). Claiming that the language is deficient because of its syntax means you're missing something, unless you have a proposal for an alternate syntax that is still homoiconic. Let me know!

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