On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 13:20:03 -0400, retard <r...@tard.com.invalid> wrote:
It doesn't matter what language you use. The concepts are the same regardless of the syntax. If I liked the parenthesis hell, I'd probably use Lisp. But it's still not a good argument to bring up every time Lisp is being discussed. You're dismissing all intelligent discussion by ranting about the syntax. Almost everyone here agrees that Lisp has too little syntax, so that point doesn't bring any new value.
Maybe you misunderstood my original statement. Scheme may introduce some nice paradigms, and be well designed, but I just couldn't get past the parentheses. Therefore, I have little experience in scheme, even though I used it. That's all I was saying.
My professor would write some scheme example on the board, and then write a bunch of closing parentheses as he was saying "cdr, cons, etc." so I was absolutely thoroughly lost most of the time :) I'm surprised I even passed that class. We had to write a scheme interpreter in scheme, it was probably way too advanced for my brain at the time.
-Steve
