Re: How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel functional language to the level of FORTH ?

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From: Pascal J. Bourguignon
Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2011 14:15

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girosenth <girosenth@india.com> writes:

> How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel
> functional language to the level of FORTH ?
>
> There are many people who have trivia complaints about parens in lisp,
> but I dont.
>
> LISP is a prefix notation.
>
> sequence of operations would look like this on operands (ops) :
>
> (f ops (g ops (h ops (j ops (k ops (l ops ))...))))
>
> How do you make it readable ?
> How do you home to the center or centers ?
>
> (f (g (h (j (k (l ops)))...)))
>
> is easy to read or
>
> ops l k j h g f
>
> ???

I think we can call you a troll.

Is it not obvious how you home to the center?
http://www.informatimago.com/~pjb/bulleye.png
Is it not a flagrant proof that lisp is the most easy to read?

-- 
__Pascal Bourguignon__                     http://www.informatimago.com/
A bad day in () is better than a good day in {}.

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