Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!news.funet.fi!tut!pk From: pk@tut.fi (Kellom{ki Pertti) Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme Subject: Re: WHY I HATE LISP SYNTAX Message-ID: Date: 14 Sep 90 09:55:43 GMT References: <9009130408.aa29622@mc.lcs.mit.edu> <9009131206.aa18162@mc.lcs.mit.edu> Sender: news@funet.fi (#News ) Organization: Tampere Univ. of Technology, Finland. Lines: 18 In-Reply-To: cmaeda@EXXON-VALDEZ.FT.CS.CMU.EDU's message of 13 Sep 90 16:05:31 GMT >>>>> On 13 Sep 90 16:05:31 GMT, cmaeda@EXXON-VALDEZ.FT.CS.CMU.EDU (Christopher Maeda) said: cmaeda> YO DOODS, cmaeda> I HATE LISP SYNTAX BECUASE I CAN'T TELL WHICH PARENS ARE SUPPOSED TO cmaeda> BE CURLY BRACES AND WHICH PARENS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE PARENS. This is exactly why I dislike the syntax of many other languages: I can't tell why some parens are supposed to be curly braces, brackets angle brackets and whatnots ;-) Seriously, coming from a lispy background, I sometimes find it hard to remember to insert all the semicolons, colons, etc. that many languages require. But, as has been said many times, it is just a matter of taste and habit. -- Pertti Kellom\"aki (TeX format) # These opinions are mine, Tampere Univ. of TeXnology # ALL MINE ! Software Systems Lab # (but go ahead and use them, if you like)