On 6 May 2010 08:25, Gregory Crosswhite <gcr...@phys.washington.edu> wrote: > > On May 5, 2010, at 3:09 PM, Daniel Fischer wrote: > >> Learning Lisp dialects is much harder (to a large part because of the >> parentheses, which makes them near impossible to parse). > > On the contrary, the whole point of parentheses is that it makes Lisp > *easier* to parse... for computers. :-)
With the added advantage of making it easier for text editors to do automatic indentation properly for precisely the same reason (this is probably the only flaw with Haskell's indentation-centric coding style). -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
