Why You Do Not Use Lisp -- a survey

Re:Why You Do Not Use Lisp -- a survey by dreish on Wednesday October 21, 2009 @10:59AM (#894765)

That's the easiest and most superficial rationalization for not bothering to try a Lisp (any Lisp), but also the least compelling argument against it, and likely not even the most significant actual reason you haven't bothered to learn it.

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Re:Why You Do Not Use Lisp -- a survey by huherto on Wednesday October 21, 2009 @11:11AM (#894790)

It may not be a fundamental problem for people that know it well. But, first impressions matter nonetheless. Edit:Spelling

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Re:Why You Do Not Use Lisp -- a survey by pilif on Wednesday October 21, 2009 @11:12AM (#894797)

I was joking about the syntax and the way how I just can't wrap my brain around reading lisp and matching parentheses.

I was not joking about the recursive and functional nature of Lisp, both of which I'm finding very interesting (and my coworker is, in fact, a big fan of Haskell)

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Re:Why You Do Not Use Lisp -- a survey by peregrine on Wednesday October 21, 2009 @11:20AM (#894815)

The editor should help you use parens. http://code.google.com/p/counterclockwise/wiki/ScreenShots#S...

Rainbow parens are really helpful and so is automatic paren matching....

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