Re: Bashing sea shells and bash shell (was: How do you.....)

[ccb]

Derek pontificates:
> If you think that's bad, try LISP or scheme... You'll never want to see
> another set of parentheses again!

White space as syntax is probably why I'll never learn Python unless
there's a big price tag on it.  It's bad enough in Makefiles.

Now about those parentheses...  those are languages in which you
can go a long way without encountering any of these:

     '{[]}'+=- :: ~`|&*^%$

Those are languages in which you can learn ALL of the core syntax in
under 20 minutes and spend almost no time arguing with yourself about
why every statement has a ; at the end except the ones that come before
the END keyword.

I've seen 4-year grads who had never gotten beyond how pointers work
in C simply for the lack of semester course in Scheme.

Check it out: http://www.cs.rice.edu/~matthias/TLS


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