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Re:How Lisp-family languages facilitate building bioinformat... by yomly on Monday January 09, 2017 @07:24AM (#13355804)
>modestly more readable languages.

This is definitely all relative, I would argue lisp is easier to read given that the philosophy of its syntax is that there is no syntax...

Though if you've only ever read classical languages I can see how lisp would seem alien

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Re:How Lisp-family languages facilitate building bioinformat... by throwanem on Monday January 09, 2017 @08:01AM (#13356013)
Lisp someone else wrote is harder to read than Perl you wrote, but any Lisp is easier to read than Perl someone else wrote.
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Re:How Lisp-family languages facilitate building bioinformat... by wtbob on Monday January 09, 2017 @09:58PM (#13362176)
My experience with Perl was that me-a-week-ago counts as someone else. That's not flippant — it's an accurate reflection of my experience that Perl tends to be write-only.

There are some people who do write beautiful Perl, but they are few and far between (again, in my experience).

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