From: William James <w_a_x_man@...>
Date: 2009-02-28T15:54:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Nexus Programming Language

Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:

> > Pascal, I'm curious about your use of parentheses above. Do you use
> > them because it makes some things easier in your editor, 
> 
> Yes, definitely. I use emacs with paredit-mode.
> 
> 
> > or to compare
> > more directly with the Lisp example I elided, 
> 
> Not specifically, but it's a nice side effect.
> 
> 
> > or simply to try and
> > make your Ruby code look as much like Lisp as posisble, or ... ?
> 
> Yes, definitely.  It makes me feel if not at home, at least, at a
> strange aunt's, vs. in a totally strange home in a totally strange
> land.

This tends to prove the hypothesis that Commune Lisp users are
incapable of becoming fluent in other languages.  They lack the
ability to change and to grow; their minds seem to be fossilized.
They believe that the evolution of programming languages ended
with FORTRAN.