From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2009-02-24T09:09:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Nexus Programming Language

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On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 06:59:57AM +0900, Tom wrote:
>=20
> So you can have lisp without parentheses if you can live with that
> pythonesque indentation thing -- I personally would prefer the
> parentheses though which are quite easy to read when you're used to
> it.

UCBLogo gives a hint to how you can do it without either the significant
whitespace of Python or the ubiquitous parentheses of Common Lisp.  In
fact, UCBLogo basically *is* a LISP implementation.


>=20
> To a certain extent I can actually understand Pascal's sympathy for
> lisp. The problem with lisp rather is useless (Scheme) or bloated (CL)
> standards.

=2E . . or ignored (UCBLogo), or vaporous (Arc).

--=20
Chad Perrin [ content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
Quoth Doug Linder: "A good programmer is someone who always looks both
ways before crossing a one-way street."

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