alt Hacker NewsAs a long time lisper I can't stand how much syntax languages have and I think of excess syntax as a sign of a childish mind, but what can you do?
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zephen • last Saturday at 6:56 PM
As I get older, I realize that everybody's sweet spot is a little different.
Lisp and APL both have their adherents.
I personally find a bit more syntax than lisp to be nice. Occasionally I long for the homoiconicity of lisp; otoh, many of the arguments for it fall flat with me. For example, DSLs -- yeah, no, it's hard enough to get semi-technical people to use DSLs to start with, never mind lisp-like ones.
It's horses for courses, right? Pick the right language for the job. LISP was designed for 60's era GOFAI, designed for that with code not differentiated from data, but a COBOL or FORTRAN even BASIC programmer would presumably (and justifiably from the perspective of those typical use cases) regard LISP as the toy/unserious language.