Re: merits of Lisp vs Python

2006-12-11 Thread philip . armitage
Juan R. wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha escrito: > > - Lisp is hard to learn (because of all those parenthesis) > > I cannot understand why. It is like if you claim that packaging things > in boxes is difficult to learn. > > HTML and XML have more brackets than LISP (usually double) for > structuring

Re: merits of Lisp vs Python

2006-12-15 Thread philip . armitage
Paul Rubin wrote: > André Thieme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > which isn't purely a matter of token count. And if (+ 2 3) were > really as easy to read as 2+3, mathematics would have been written > that way all along. Maybe I am a "mutant" as Ken suggests but while mathematicians may think in te