From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed1.bredband.com!bredband!news01.chello.se!news01.chello.no!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: looking for a language with any of the following 4 charachteristics (all 4 would be nice). References: <42e37222.0202111748.77f8a64a@posting.google.com> <3C697B24.9D1A372@alltel.net> <3222540975992591@naggum.net> <863d04es3m.fsf@cs.uga.edu> <3222681122640264@naggum.net> Mail-Copies-To: never From: Erik Naggum Message-ID: <3222685224902770@naggum.net> Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 35 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 14:20:22 GMT X-Complaints-To: abuse@chello.no X-Trace: news01.chello.no 1013696422 212.186.234.171 (Thu, 14 Feb 2002 15:20:22 MET) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 15:20:22 MET X-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 15:20:36 MET (news01.chello.no) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:26523 * Holger Schauer | I wonder on what basis you draw the conclusion that the distinction is | between verbal and visual and wonder even more about the possible | implications. Sigh. I wrote: It appears warranted by the various reactions people have posted and told of elsewhere to conclude that Common Lisp is a language that is better suited for those who are more verbal than visual in how they remember and learn. | For instance, a verbal learner should not be thrown off by code like | (member (car (list (do-something here (based on another complicated | computation) ... )))). This seems | counterintuitive to me, I think even experienced Lisp programmers tend to | have (reading) problems with such gross code. [1] On what basis do you conclude something about what a "verbal learner" should or should not be thrown off by? | But then again, I may be one of those who you would classify as a | visual oriented person Why do you think this is an either-or issue? When I write "more verbal than visual" and try to be very clear that we are talking about a point on a line between two extrama, please do not waste my time by assuming that only the extrema are worth talking about. Nobody is "classified" as a visual-oriented person, it is a matter of what you are more comfortable with, not some one-bit flag in your personality. /// -- In a fight against something, the fight has value, victory has none. In a fight for something, the fight is a loss, victory merely relief.