Be gentle with me....

[Neel Krishnaswami]

William Tanksley <wtanksle at hawking.armored.net> wrote:
>
>Wow.  It took me a few weeks to get over Lisp's parens, and they're WAY
>nastier than Python's indentation.  A year, though...

Hey, Lisp's parens are a big part of the reason Lisp is beautiful!
The combination of symbols as a language feature and fully
parenthesized s-exps is why Lisp has a macro system that does not 
suck -- Lisp macros are essentially transformations of the abstract 
syntax. And that macro system is why even novel ideas can always be
expressed cleanly in Lisp.


Neel