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[Gnu-arch-users] Re: Tla spork
From: |
Miles Bader |
Subject: |
[Gnu-arch-users] Re: Tla spork |
Date: |
Fri, 27 Aug 2004 14:40:46 +0900 |
Zenaan Harkness <address@hidden> writes:
> It doesn't flow for me. I have to juggle the pieces in my head for it to
> make sense. Even with the common/ math version right above it.
>
> I can't explain why this is the case, only that it is my experience. I
> look, and feel stupid; feel thoroughly disempowered.
I think it's probably just because you have experience with one syntax
and not with the other; getting a good feeling for something does take a
bit of time -- though I don't think it's really all that much time in
this case; lispish syntax really is _simple_, and regular.
[I learned lisp (starting with the incredible August 1979 issue of Byte
magazine) before I learned C, and definitely found the former easier to
understand at first -- it was just soooo simple, so .... primitive (in a
good way). With C you had to keep all these things in your head at
once, but with lisp, you could just stare at little pieces and build
up from there.]
-Miles
--
`There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.'
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Tla spork, (continued)
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Tla spork, Tom Lord, 2004/08/24
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Tla spork, James Blackwell, 2004/08/25
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Tla spork, tomas, 2004/08/26
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Tla spork, Zenaan Harkness, 2004/08/26
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Tla spork, Stefan Monnier, 2004/08/26
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Tla spork, Zenaan Harkness, 2004/08/26
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Tla spork, Miles Bader, 2004/08/26
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Tla spork, Mikhael Goikhman, 2004/08/26
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Tla spork, Miles Bader, 2004/08/27
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Tla spork, Zenaan Harkness, 2004/08/27
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Tla spork,
Miles Bader <=
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Tla spork, Miles Bader, 2004/08/27
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Tla spork, James Blackwell, 2004/08/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Tla spork, Stig Brautaset, 2004/08/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Tla spork, Andrew Suffield, 2004/08/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Tla spork, James Blackwell, 2004/08/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Tla spork, Tobias C. Rittweiler, 2004/08/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Tla spork, Tom Lord, 2004/08/28