From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: prad Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel functional language to the level of FORTH ? Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2011 11:22:15 -0800 Message-ID: <87fwtcxwd4.fsf@towardsfreedom.com> References: <80ceeca0-1d32-47d1-ba96-feb4d9729c3a@v17g2000yqv.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1293909788 10700 80.91.229.12 (1 Jan 2011 19:23:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2011 19:23:08 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 01 20:23:04 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PZ72Z-0004Dh-H0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 01 Jan 2011 20:23:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49349 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PZ72X-00068m-CX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 01 Jan 2011 14:22:57 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=39486 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PZ72E-000630-MN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Jan 2011 14:22:40 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PZ725-0007NE-O9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Jan 2011 14:22:30 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:50469) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PZ725-0007N9-H8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Jan 2011 14:22:29 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PZ723-0003ze-3X for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Jan 2011 20:22:27 +0100 Original-Received: from 70.67.160.177 ([70.67.160.177]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 01 Jan 2011 20:22:27 +0100 Original-Received: from prad by 70.67.160.177 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 01 Jan 2011 20:22:27 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 70.67.160.177 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:bNg4KLboPAcQUlkymbpqoXqyDgM= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:78026 Archived-At: girosenth writes: > How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel > functional language to the level of FORTH ? > having come to lisp from haskell which i thought was very elegant, i was initially dismayed by the increased verbosity and those parentheses. however, now haskell looks funny and lisp reads beautifully, so part of it is no doubt a matter of usage. i also found that working down rather than across helps a lot. so instead of (setq whatever (func1 (func2 x y) (func3 a b)) this sort of thing is often preferable (setq whatever (func1 (func2 x y) (func3 a b))) -- in friendship, prad