From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2007-07-20T00:08:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Taking the bull by its horns [was background]

On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 09:51:50PM +0900, James Edward Gray II wrote:
> On Jul 19, 2007, at 2:58 AM, Michael Ulm wrote:
> 
> >Btw, I tried learning Lisp several times, and never got the hang of  
> >it. Although I like the pureness of concept, I just
> >can't write anything reasonably complex with it.
> 
> I'm exactly the same way.  However, toying with Lisp did make me  
> appreciate s-expressions which I do now use quite a bit in other  
> programming.

S-expression syntax really does make for a great data format.  I think
its strict prefix notation form is largely to "blame" for that fact.

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