On Feb 17, 1:23 pm, Matthew Winn <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 agree that Lisp and its derivatives are easy enough to read when you're used to it, but only if the programmer followed a good style and made it easy for you. Cramming everything on a single line makes Lisp a nearly unreadable mess of parentheses. As for Perl, I regularly make little scripts in Perl, and usually my scripts are about 10-20% real code, and the rest comments explaining what the hell the code is doing. I have found that Perl gives you so many shortcuts and implied operations, which the documentation *actively encourages you to use*, that it becomes very difficult to read very quickly. Very powerful, very concise, yes...but hard to read unless very well documented. -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
