Re:Clear is better than clever [pdf]
by whatshisface on Monday May 06, 2019 @09:58AM
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A lisper would say that there is absolutely no limit, and that in fact all programs should be structured like that.
To be clear, a lisper would not solve the problem by switching to a more verbose syntax, but that doesn't mean no depth is too deep. Breaking a big, deeply-nested function up into smaller ones is a perfectly lispy thing to do.
Re:Clear is better than clever [pdf]
by bryanrasmussen on Monday May 06, 2019 @04:35PM
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That's not what it looks like to me https://yoo2080.wordpress.com/2014/07/04/it-is-not-hard-to-r...
And that's why lispers are at most 1% of the total number of programmers out there, 50+ years after the language was invented.
You could say that most programmers are crap, but those crap programmers seem to make the world work, so they must be doing something right :-)
> You could say that most programmers are crap
Because they are
> but those crap programmers seem to make the world work
For certains value of "work". Most software is crap too and it's getting worse not better.
Is there never going to be any level of depth in a ternary statement which you will think is perhaps too great, and want to switch to some more verbose syntax?