Re:An Intuition for Lisp Syntax
by CraigJPerry on Monday October 26, 2020 @06:23AM
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>> the primary reason LISP isn't mainstream is because it results in less readable code
It’s fresh in my head just how unreadable i found Clojure when browsing source of random projects on github a couple of weeks ago. Its not that penetrable to begin with.
However, that was only a couple of weeks ago, since then i’ve come to really appreciate the simple magic of lisp syntax.
I’ve also been able to put it to practical use rather than just appreciating it - i’ve been spoiled by Calva in VS Code, structural editing that doesn’t just work, it actually flows - i’m no stranger to structural find and replace in Intellij but this is different, this smoothes an impedance mismatch between our thinking and expressing code.
It’s fresh in my head just how unreadable i found Clojure when browsing source of random projects on github a couple of weeks ago. Its not that penetrable to begin with.
However, that was only a couple of weeks ago, since then i’ve come to really appreciate the simple magic of lisp syntax.
I’ve also been able to put it to practical use rather than just appreciating it - i’ve been spoiled by Calva in VS Code, structural editing that doesn’t just work, it actually flows - i’m no stranger to structural find and replace in Intellij but this is different, this smoothes an impedance mismatch between our thinking and expressing code.