On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:34:41 +0200, Teemu Likonen <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have no answers to those but I sense a danger in discussions like > this. It can easily go to "my favourite language is a very clear one" > and "other people's code and favourite languages are unreadable." That's pretty much the reasoning with every claim for a language's superiority or inferiority. I find Perl to be one of the easiest languages to read because it's one of the languages I know best. It's years since I did any Lisp programming, but I found that quite easy to read when I was using it. > I can't comment about the pride but I'd like to ask what do you think > affects more, coding style or language? I'm asking because in the > previous paragraph you spoke about languages' readability and now you > switched to programmers. Maybe you mean that some programmers try to do > clever and powerful tricks which do a lot of things with a tiny piece of > code but are difficult to understand quickly (?). Many of those clever and powerful tricks are standard techniques of the language. In languages like Vimscript that support regular expressions the use of such expressions looks like a trick that is difficult to understand, but only to people whose knowledge of the language is lacking. -- Matthew Winn -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
