Re:An Intuition for Lisp Syntax
by coldtea on Monday October 26, 2020 @10:06AM
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>And the idea that you'd somehow start to consider something you've been doing all your life as “irregular” after 2–4 weeks of Lisp cure is just hilarious.
And yet we learn all kinds of syntax that we haven't been familiar at all (zero indexing, x=x+1, etc which we used to the exact inverse: math assignments being immutable or denoting an equation not increment, etc),
-- not to mention advanced stuff like generics, futures, closures, etc --
And yet we learn all kinds of syntax that we haven't been familiar at all (zero indexing, x=x+1, etc which we used to the exact inverse: math assignments being immutable or denoting an equation not increment, etc),
-- not to mention advanced stuff like generics, futures, closures, etc --
and we seem to manage just fine...