Lots of talk about removing the parenthesis, using things like Tree-Notation and such.
Really, all I can say is that you can pry the parens from my cold, dead, cantankerous hands. :P
Maybe it's because I've been playing with Lisp, in one form or another, on and off for several years.
But I never found the parens really all that bad.
It's no problem at all as long as you have basic paren matching support in whatever editor you use.
And if you happen to use an editor that supports the structured manipulation of S-expressions, well, it's a pretty neat experience.
I think the only time the parens bother me is if I print source code out. But even then, there are clear conventions on how Lisp source should be laid out and indented, so you adapt pretty quick, even in the "worst case."
Lots of talk about removing the parenthesis, using things like Tree-Notation and such.
Really, all I can say is that you can pry the parens from my cold, dead, cantankerous hands. :P
Maybe it's because I've been playing with Lisp, in one form or another, on and off for several years.
But I never found the parens really all that bad.
It's no problem at all as long as you have basic paren matching support in whatever editor you use.
And if you happen to use an editor that supports the structured manipulation of S-expressions, well, it's a pretty neat experience.
I think the only time the parens bother me is if I print source code out. But even then, there are clear conventions on how Lisp source should be laid out and indented, so you adapt pretty quick, even in the "worst case."
shrug