On Thursday 06 May 2010 16:32:50, Limestraël wrote: > ^^ > That's an interesting debate: How do you imagine the future programming > languages? > But not today's topic. > It's strange that, since Lisp is still used now, especially for teaching > purposes, and since everybody complains about parenthesises, nobody > developed a Lisp-like just based on indentation...
Readable Lisp. Now, that could be an interesting language :) > To my mind, I think that as long as you lay out well your code, Lisp is > quite readable. I don't see why the parenthesises would make it harder > to learn. It's idiosyncratic. I just don't manage to see through them. If you don't get distracted by the parentheses, good for you. > > Daniel, prior to learn Haskell, did you know other functional languages? No. Just some faint memories of Pascal from twenty years before and a bit of Java. Haskell just matched the natural way of thinking pretty closely. It might have something to do with the fact that I studied mathematics. > Cause I didn't, and let me tell you that the functional way of coding > wasn't obvious while beginning (now I can't do without), especially the > whole monad thing. > Problem: Haskell without monads (or structures even more unusual, like > Arrows) is no longer Haskell (can be subject to debate, too), so you > have to get the point if you want to use properly the language. Or else > you stuck to quicksort-like algorithms which show the beauty of the > language, but not its power. > > 2010/5/6 Pierre-Etienne Meunier <pierreetienne.meun...@gmail.com> > > > Fifty years ago someone came up with this idea of lisp and > > parentheses. By now in year 2010, I have never heard of any programmer > > who never made jokes about it. I don't remember ever making a joke about it. But I'm not a programmer, so I'm not a counterexample. > > > > ... good luck limestraël ;-) > > Seconded. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe