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Article #4131Re: scheme [Re: What does an anti-perl look like]
From: Ken Dickey
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1991 20:44
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1991 20:44
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>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! -Ken Dickey kend@data.uucp
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