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Re:Lisp for the Web, Part III by sabya on Saturday August 22, 2015 @09:39PM (#10104458)
>You can imagine Lisp grammar like Pac Man eating the dots: ᗧ••••, and there is no ghosts here. Pac Man is the function in Lisp, and the dots are arguments. After Pac Man eat up all the dots (the function is executed with all these arguments), it becames a dot: • . and a dot is able to be eaten by another Pac Man.

Simplest explanation of Lisp grammar I've read!

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Re:Lisp for the Web, Part III by nickpsecurity on Sunday August 23, 2015 @12:51AM (#10104715)
It's funny until you look at XML so many love and wonder why they hated LISP syntax at same time.

http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/lisp.html

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Re:Lisp for the Web, Part III by e12e on Sunday August 23, 2015 @01:52AM (#10104802)
People loved XML syntax?

My impression was that the only thing wrong with XML was the syntax (hence the JSON revolution). After all, apart from syntax, possibly some of the ill-advised "external element" stuff ... I think XML is strictly better in every meaningful sense than JSON.

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Re:Lisp for the Web, Part III by nickpsecurity on Sunday August 23, 2015 @01:56AM (#10104809)
They did. Especially web design crowd. Its syntax and tech are crap, though, compared to what came before it. Another lesson never learned by mainstream IT. That amount of developer and user effort would've achieved more results by using superior technology.

Already gave a nice comparison here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10044598

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Re:Lisp for the Web, Part III by pjtr on Sunday August 23, 2015 @02:56AM (#10104877)
I'm guessing because they already knew HTML, so it seemed familiar and easy to learn to them. Similar to how many programmers prefer crazy (but familiar) C-like syntax (C, C++, C#, Java, PHP, Javascript, ...) and dismiss anything that looks remotely unfamiliar even if much saner (Lisp, Pascal, ML, ...).
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Re:Lisp for the Web, Part III by nickpsecurity on Sunday August 23, 2015 @12:14PM (#10105846)
Exactly! You're getting it. Part of it, but a big part.
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Re:Lisp for the Web, Part III by agumonkey on Saturday August 22, 2015 @10:59PM (#10104578)
Brett Victor had a similar idea involving something wilder http://worrydream.com/AlligatorEggs/
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