85% languages (was Re:Linux fat/bloated)

[Jason Spiro]

2006/4/7, Peter <plp-ysDPMY98cNQDDBjDh4tngg at public.gmane.org>:
> On Fri, 7 Apr 2006, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> > Doh.  I misread the small print on the chart I looked at.  Yes tcl is
> > from 1988. :(  So it matches with perl in age. :)  I thought have
> > realized that given it is a much higher level language than what I would
> > have expected in 1968.
>
> Lisp is higher level than Tcl and predates it ...
>
The problem is with the brackets. No matter how good Lisp is, people
will still stay away from learning more about it because they're
scared of parentheses for some reason. :-)

Jason
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