On Feb 5, 2013, at 12:15 AM, Rich Morin wrote: > On Feb 4, 2013, at 19:49, deliminator wrote: >> Long story short: want more people to love lisp? >> Implement paredit for more editors. > > +1!
-1 Just another data point and YMMV, but I've long loved Lisp and long hated paredit. I do agree, however, that editor features are key. For me, what makes the difference is bracket/parentheses *matching* (showing what matches what, but not typing for me) and good auto-reindentation. In my experience those features make it so obvious what the code structure is that it's simple to keep things balanced correctly. Paredit, however, goes too far by thinking it knows more than I do about what I want to type when, and gets in the way when I want to type my ideas in a weird order and/or cut/paste unbalanced things, which I basically do continuously. FWIW I also teach new programmers Lisp with some regularity, and I don't get the sense that parentheses are ever a big issue (in the context of the editors that I provide, which always have bracket matching and auto-reindentation -- yes, it' d be great for those to be more ubiquitous). On the other hand, defeating students' existing typing/cutting/pasting habits, or making them deal with emacs arcana: problems. Again, YMMV! -Lee -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
