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Article #4134Re: scheme [Re: What does an anti-perl look like]
From: Doug Philips
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1991 20:45
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1991 20:45
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In article <505@data.UUCP>,
kend@data.UUCP (Ken Dickey) writes:
+>byron@donald.tamu.edu (Byron Rakitzis) writes:
+>> 3) I want the syntax of the language to be elegant. This sounds like a tall
+>> order, but what I'm doing is ruling out languages like Scheme; I just cannot
+>> deal with the Lots of Irrelevant and Stupid Parentheses.
+You probably don't use C's ugly curly braces, parenthesis, or square
+brackets (why so many types of parenthesis?). Aside from being
+elegant--which it is--, Scheme's syntax is trivial. I *never* have to
+look at a language manual to use Scheme. I *always* have to look at
+manuals for non-lisp-family languages. Syntax should be trivial!
And then there are Forth and PostScript with even less syntax!
-Doug
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!pitt!willett!dwp From: dwp@willett.pgh.pa.us (Doug Philips) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: scheme [Re: What does an anti-perl look like] Message-ID: <2878.UUL1.3#5129@willett.pgh.pa.us> Date: 14 Jun 91 20:45:07 GMT Organization: (n.) to be organized. But that's not important right now. Lines: 20