From ... From: Erik Naggum Subject: Re: RFC: Lisp/Scheme with less parentheses through Python-like significant indentation? Date: 2000/08/11 Message-ID: <3174982969133502@naggum.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 657129768 References: <3990E003.6EE78131@kurtz-fernhout.com> <3992235B.5C9B717C@kurtz-fernhout.com> mail-copies-to: never Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@eunet.no X-Trace: oslo-nntp.eunet.no 965995188 13532 195.0.192.66 (11 Aug 2000 11:59:48 GMT) Organization: Naggum Software; vox: +47 8800 8879; fax: +47 8800 8601; http://naggum.no; http://naggum.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.7 Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 11 Aug 2000 11:59:48 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp * Aaron Crane | It seems misguided at best to optimise for novices, especially for a | programming language: one hopes and expects that people remain | novices for only a vanishingly small fraction of their lives as a | programmer. What!? And run counter to all established marketing practice for computers and software and operating systems and and and...? The only good novice is one who remains a novice and continues to buy "introductory" books for novices/dummies, pays for expensive courses but learns nothing, and who ensures that non-novices get paid very well to fix his problems. Novices-who-remain-novices are probably responsible for 25% of the fraction of the GNP that is related to computers. And now you're suggesting we not cater to them? What are you? Some, some, uh, some _professional_? #:Erik -- If this is not what you expected, please alter your expectations.