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Re:The Failure of Lisp? A Reply To Brandon Werner by mixmax on Thursday September 18, 2008 @06:23PM (#308659)
You have an interesting point here that is not often discussed.

I am pretty new to programming, which means that I'm not stuck in conventions about how code syntax is supposed to be. On this background I find lisp pretty easy exactly because the syntax is so simple.

To me lisp is like chess: It's easy to grasp the basic rules, but hard to become a master.

Re:The Failure of Lisp? A Reply To Brandon Werner by eru on Friday September 19, 2008 @09:26AM (#309213)
Then Scheme is like Go. Interesting like Common Lisp, but more beautiful.