Re:John Carmack working on Scheme as a VR scripting language
by sklogic on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @09:14AM
(#9811578)
> Scheme and all the other Lisp variants look terrible to me
Baby duck syndrome?
> Having an excessively simple syntax doesn't mean that it's nice to use.
Having an excessively simple syntax ensures that you can add any amount of syntax on top of it, whatever you fancy. Do not like S-expressions? Fine. Code in any syntax you like.
> but this is much easier to understand, isn't it?
Baby duck syndrome?
> Having an excessively simple syntax doesn't mean that it's nice to use.
Having an excessively simple syntax ensures that you can add any amount of syntax on top of it, whatever you fancy. Do not like S-expressions? Fine. Code in any syntax you like.
> but this is much easier to understand, isn't it?
No, it is not.