Rob Myers writes: > Yes. It's important to lower the entry barrier for learning and using > Lisp.
While this statement might seem obviously true, in fact it isn't. For instance, dumbing down the GUI toolkit to look like something that non-lispers are used to, instead of taking full advantage of CLOS and the dynamic aspects of Common Lisp is not a good idea in my opinion. One should (again in my opinion) be careful not to fall into traps that might be the result of wanting to lower the entry barrier. Making the GUI toolkit look like other event-driven toolkits might be such a step. Should we avoid multiple dispatch for people who are not used to it? Perhaps we should create a Java-like syntax so as not to disturb people who are used to curly braces? -- Robert Strandh --------------------------------------------------------------------- Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming: any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp. --------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
