From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2009-02-24T09:05:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Nexus Programming Language

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On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 06:41:07AM +0900, Nico Bonada wrote:
> Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
>=20
> > These expression can be processed by user code, by macros, (of course
> > by the scheme compilers), but also by trivial tools  such as editors,
> > who need only to know how to count parentheses to correctly parse
> > lisp expressions.
>=20
> This might be true, but lisp expressions are hard for humans to parse.
> The same goes for XML.

That's why the original conception of LISP used an m-expression syntax
rather than an s-expression syntax.  The s-expression syntax was intended
to be an intermediate compilation step, but the Lisp community way back
in the day just kinda stopped at s-expressions and declared it "done".

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Chad Perrin [ content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
Quoth Gerardo Tasistro: "Features are implemented by programmers in the
code and security is implemented by lawyers in the EULA."

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