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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!edcastle!aiai!jeff
- From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
- Subject: Re: Is lisp easy to learn?
- Message-ID: <7876@skye.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 16:37:14 GMT
- References: <1992Oct22.200657.16177@linus.mitre.org> <7848@skye.ed.ac.uk> <CHYDE.92Nov5151331@pecos.ads.com>
- Sender: news@aiai.ed.ac.uk
- Organization: AIAI, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
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- In article <CHYDE.92Nov5151331@pecos.ads.com> chyde@pecos.ads.com (Clinton Hyde) writes:
- >
- >jeff's original prefix version:
- >
- > defun equal x y
- > or eql x y
- > and consp x
- > consp y
- > equal car x car y
- > equal cdr x cdr y
- >
- >worse than this even:
- >
- > eql x y or
- > consp x and
- > consp y and
- > car x equal car y and
- > cdr x equal cdr y
- >
- >this is gibberish without the parentheses...
-
- Are you agreeing with me or disagreeing? If the letter, I don't think
- you will find Lisp readable no matter what.
-
- Anyway, I can read both versions. I happen to find the first easier.
-
- -- jd
-