On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 12:42 PM, John Nilsson <[email protected]> wrote:

> While lisp may be a nice language to write, it is certainly not a good
> language to read...

I think this isn't so much the fault of the language as it is the
fault of the way most Lisp code seems to be written. It is common to
find code where a multi-step process is coded as a single function
call, taking multiple arguments that are each function calls taking
multiple argument, on and on. The code can often be made easier to
read by simply applying the "extract method" refactoring pattern
repeatedly. It's too bad more developers that work in Lisp-dialects
don't take to the time to write their code so it is easy to read.
Failure do so discourages other developers from learning and using the
language.

-- 
R. Mark Volkmann
Object Computing, Inc.

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