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

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Fri, 7 Apr 2006, Jason Spiro wrote:

> 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. :-)

    The problem is not the parentheses so much as the style that lisp
    coders use: "))))))))))))))" does look intimidating. If they were
    indented in the way most other language styles prefer, they would
    be quite understandable.

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