Re: Appreciation / Financial support

[David Kastrup]

Matthew Collett <address@hidden> writes:

> On 30/05/2012, at 9:10 pm, David Kastrup wrote:
>
>>  Lua with "separate statements with
>> semicolon or newline or space, I don't care" is nicer, but it is
>> procedural, not functional, 
>
> And right there is an excellent reason to prefer it to Scheme.  There
> are some people who really like functional programming, but for most
> people functional programming is arcane and confusing, and procedural
> far more natural.  To tempt ordinary users to dip their toe into
> scripting, a procedural language is the way to go.

Having to cut an argument off in mid-sentence for being able to counter
it does not exactly overwhelm.

#1 is a shallower dip than #{ return 1 #}.

-- 
David Kastrup