Re:New Languages Considered Harmful: "Learning new languages...
by Zak on Monday April 07, 2008 @01:37PM
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Sure, those are all parts of the syntax of a language, but I still maintain that CL's syntax is simpler and more regular than that of Ruby and vastly simpler than that of Java.
As an aside, the first form of the example you gave is what most Lisps use. CL, Scheme, Emacs and Goo all use this. The second, as far as I know is only used by Arc, which has a more complicated syntax than most Lisps.
As an aside, the first form of the example you gave is what most Lisps use. CL, Scheme, Emacs and Goo all use this. The second, as far as I know is only used by Arc, which has a more complicated syntax than most Lisps.