From: Didier Verna <didier@lrde.epita.fr>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel functional language to the level of FORTH ?
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2011 11:29:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mux7hemmgb5.fsf@uzeb.lrde.epita.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ca15d8c3-86db-46fd-b35f-1a2596475769@n32g2000pre.googlegroups.com
Nathan <nbeenken@gmail.com> wrote:
> Matz himself admitted that “...Ruby is a bad rip-off of Lisp... But it
> is nicer to ordinary people.”
Which of course is a very sorry thing to say. Ruby is not nicer to
ordinary people. It's nicer to people having already been brainwashed by
languages full of syntax noise. At most, he could have said "to the
majority of people".
There is litterature and evidence out there that Lisp is just good
enough for ordinary people as well, when it's their first programming
experience.
This misconception that you must be exceptionally clever to learn and
use Lisp really hurts the language and the community.
--
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Thread overview: 84+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-01 7:04 How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel functional language to the level of FORTH ? girosenth
2011-01-01 11:39 ` Elena
2011-01-01 14:15 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2011-01-01 16:08 ` Nathan
2011-01-01 18:05 ` Jan Burse
2011-01-01 23:56 ` The Quiet Center
2011-01-02 1:10 ` Jan Burse
2011-01-02 3:45 ` LanX
2011-01-02 4:04 ` LanX
2011-01-02 5:36 ` Nathan
2011-01-02 6:46 ` Paul Rubin
2011-01-02 15:01 ` LanX
2011-01-02 15:14 ` Jerome Baum
2011-01-02 21:21 ` Paul Rubin
2011-01-02 7:14 ` w_a_x_man
2011-01-02 6:59 ` w_a_x_man
2011-01-03 15:22 ` LanX
2011-01-02 14:07 ` Frank GOENNINGER
2011-01-07 9:41 ` w_a_x_man
2011-01-09 10:41 ` How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevelfunctional " WJ
2011-01-03 10:29 ` Didier Verna [this message]
2011-01-03 13:05 ` How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel functional " Tim Harig
2011-01-04 4:49 ` rusi
2011-01-04 5:39 ` D Herring
2011-01-04 8:02 ` Tim Harig
2011-01-04 9:09 ` Nicolas Neuss
2011-01-04 10:00 ` Tim Bradshaw
2011-01-04 12:21 ` Tim Harig
2011-01-04 12:23 ` Tim Bradshaw
2011-01-04 13:33 ` Tim Harig
2011-01-04 12:41 ` Tamas K Papp
2011-01-04 23:32 ` Tim X
2011-01-05 1:35 ` [OT] LISP community advocacy [was Re: How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel functional language to the level of FORTH ?] Tim Harig
2011-01-05 9:52 ` How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel functional language to the level of FORTH ? Tim Bradshaw
2011-01-04 6:24 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2011-01-04 15:43 ` Raffael Cavallaro
2011-01-04 10:18 ` Didier Verna
2011-01-01 22:50 ` girosenth
2011-01-02 21:11 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2011-01-03 16:21 ` José A. Romero L.
2011-01-03 18:03 ` jacko
2011-01-02 23:45 ` Chip Eastham
2011-01-01 18:27 ` How to improve the readability of Steve Revilak
2011-01-01 19:22 ` How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel functional language to the level of FORTH ? prad
2011-01-01 23:56 ` Pascal Costanza
2011-01-02 5:39 ` D Herring
2011-01-02 14:17 ` Frank GOENNINGER
2011-01-02 14:53 ` Jerome Baum
2011-01-02 14:58 ` LanX
2011-01-02 17:55 ` Bernd Paysan
2011-01-03 18:07 ` jacko
2011-01-02 12:59 ` Doug Hoffman
2011-01-02 19:14 ` w_a_x_man
2011-01-03 5:20 ` Elizabeth D Rather
2011-01-03 10:48 ` MarkWills
2011-01-03 15:13 ` LanX
2011-01-03 18:20 ` jacko
2011-01-03 18:22 ` jacko
2011-01-03 10:18 ` Didier Verna
2011-01-04 6:47 ` pineapple
2011-01-04 14:14 ` P.M.Lawrence
2011-01-05 14:58 ` Xah Lee
2011-01-05 16:21 ` Andrew Haley
2011-01-05 21:29 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2011-01-06 8:57 ` Jonathan Groll
2011-01-07 5:36 ` Xah Lee
2011-01-07 13:28 ` Andrew Haley
2011-01-07 16:19 ` Xah Lee
2011-01-05 17:59 ` Elena
2011-01-05 20:13 ` Xah Lee
2011-01-05 21:42 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2011-01-06 13:38 ` Doug Hoffman
2011-01-06 19:20 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2011-01-07 0:09 ` w_a_x_man
2011-01-07 12:04 ` Doug Hoffman
2011-01-06 22:59 ` Xah Lee
2011-01-07 11:47 ` Jan Burse
2011-01-21 10:03 ` rupertlssmith
2011-01-21 16:08 ` Jan Burse
2011-01-21 21:43 ` D. J. Penton
2011-01-18 22:55 ` m_l_g3
2011-01-19 13:45 ` Doug Hoffman
2011-01-21 16:15 ` Jan Burse
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2011-01-02 16:50 Drew Adams
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