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- From: emcoop@bnr.ca (hume smith)
- Subject: Re: Re: Lisp Parsers
- Message-ID: <21495.1993Jan5.123959@bcars148>
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- References: <WELCH.93Jan5112512@sacral.cis.ohio-state.edu> <11586@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 17:39:59 GMT
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- > In article <11586@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> berglas@cs.uq.oz.au (Anthony Berglas) writes:
- >
- > I am trying to introduce Lisp to the UQ CS Dept, in which everybody
- > knows that real men use C++. I will put on a demo of Garnet etc. shortly
- > but most important decisions are made on first impressions, and the
- > first impressions are the (())()()s. God said that f(a, b); is easier
- > to read than (f a b), it requires less characters.
-
- then god has a strange way of counting. f(a, b); is longer than (f a b) AND is a smaller
- character set.
-
- i've tried both C++ and Lisp, learning them roughly in parallel, and my humble
- opinion is it's a hell of a lot easier to get things done in Lisp.
- --
- Hume Smith Wenn ich des Tages nicht dreimal
- hume.smith@acadiau.ca mein Schaelchen Coffee trinken darf,
- emcoop@bnr.ca so werd' ich ju zu meiner Qual
- wie ein verdorrtes Ziegenbraetchen.
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