From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news-x2.support.nl!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!news2.kpn.net!news.kpn.net!nslave.kpnqwest.net!nloc.kpnqwest.net!nmaster.kpnqwest.net!nreader3.kpnqwest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: Common syntax [was: newbie in deep over his head] References: <3223908767189370@naggum.net> Mail-Copies-To: never From: Erik Naggum Message-ID: <3223978900680608@naggum.net> Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 16 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 13:41:35 GMT X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@KPNQwest.no X-Trace: nreader3.kpnqwest.net 1014990095 193.71.199.50 (Fri, 01 Mar 2002 14:41:35 MET) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 14:41:35 MET Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:27632 * Christopher C. Stacy | People already complain about parenthesis because it makes things look | different from most programming languages. Now you're going to tell them | (or let them mistakenly assume) that they need special characters in | order to use Lisp? Well, it might get their attention off the parentheses. :) Besides, one of the perceived problems with the parentheses, is that they are basically the only syntax you have, and some people seem to get lost in the homogeneous syntax. So it _might_ actually help... /// -- 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.