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Re:Why Lisp Did Not and Never Will Gain Enough Traction by colomon on Tuesday August 14, 2012 @09:28PM (#4383957)
When people say they hate "parentheses" in Lisp, I'm pretty sure what they really mean is "I hate s-expressions." You may find them natural to work with, but it's pretty clear most programmers do not. Witness the crazy amount of work compiler writers put into writing parsers that could be trivially done away with if they just switched to using s-expressions.

Personally I prefer both Forth's RPN and C/C++ (Algol?) style notation to Lisp's s-expressions.

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Re:Why Lisp Did Not and Never Will Gain Enough Traction by KirinDave on Wednesday August 15, 2012 @12:27AM (#4384585)
S-expressions are neither wonderful nor terrible. They are just A Decision. Certainly you can have bad syntaxes and good syntaxes, as well.
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