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Article #1170Re: How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel functional language to the level of FORTH ?
From: Tim Harig
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2011 13:05
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2011 13:05
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On 2011-01-03, Didier Verna <didier@lrde.epita.fr> wrote: > Nathan <nbeenken@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Matz himself admitted that ???...Ruby is a bad rip-off of Lisp... But it >> is nicer to ordinary people.??? > > This misconception that you must be exceptionally clever to learn and > use Lisp really hurts the language and the community. What hurts the LISP community far more is the zealotry of its members, their insistance that LISP is the *only* tool for *every* job, and their agressiveness in trying to push it off on to everybody else -- whether everybody else happens want it or not. Whether this is indicitive of the entire community or simply the result of those most apparent, I cannot say; but, it leads to the overall impression that the LISP community is narrowminded and neophobic. Who would want to be part of such a community?
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