An Intuition for Lisp Syntax

Re:An Intuition for Lisp Syntax by capableweb on Monday October 26, 2020 @09:38AM (#24896008)

I'm not sure who GJS is but if you see any lisper editing text instead of operating on structures (with auto-balancing parenthesis and so on), it's 99% certain it's in an environment they are not familiar with, so they will make mistakes.

I don't think anyone who write Lisp-like languages professionally doesn't use tools like parinfer/paraedit, where balancing parenthesis is not something you have to do.

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Re:An Intuition for Lisp Syntax by jakear on Monday October 26, 2020 @09:43AM (#24896053)

This was on a blackboard. And GJS advised Guy Steele in creating Scheme and coauthored SICP with him.

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Re:An Intuition for Lisp Syntax by capableweb on Monday October 26, 2020 @09:47AM (#24896089)

Yup, makes sense that you make mistakes then, as these folks are surely used to not having to think about balancing parenthesis anymore. Just as over-reliance on GPS will make your navigation skills without a GPS worse over time.

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Re:An Intuition for Lisp Syntax by kgwgk on Monday October 26, 2020 @02:17PM (#24899249)

> coauthored SICP with him

Not with him.

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Re:An Intuition for Lisp Syntax by kgwgk on Monday October 26, 2020 @10:03AM (#24896244)

I'm pretty sure there are people who write common lisp professionally whithout those tools. Are they even available in the LispWorks or ACL editors?

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Re:An Intuition for Lisp Syntax by capableweb on Monday October 26, 2020 @10:11AM (#24896326)

While specifically parinfer and/or paraedit might not be available in neither LispWorks or ACL editors, they surely have something there to aid with parenthesis.

But I might be wrong here, it's simply hard for me to imagine someone writing with lisps professionally going the route of textual editing when structural editing is right there.

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Re:An Intuition for Lisp Syntax by kgwgk on Monday October 26, 2020 @10:49AM (#24896740)

Something, but probably not as much as you think:

http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/lw71/EDUG-M/html/edus...

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Re:An Intuition for Lisp Syntax by bear8642 on Monday October 26, 2020 @11:36AM (#24897312)

>I'm not sure who GJS is…

Gerald Jay Sussman

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