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What makes Lisp difficult to read? (paultm.nl)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/1365818

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[-] littleomid@feddit.org 25 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I will never not post this picture on this subject. Skimmed through the article, seems well written and will read it later.

Edit: did read it through, and don’t necessarily agree. I don’t think about any of this when writing lisp code. Emacs deals with my parens, as does paredit and structural editing. This discussion ignores the things that makes lisp work: s-expressions. By changing this main feature, one destroys lisps best feature.

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