merits of Lisp vs Python

[Christophe]

josephoswaldgg at hotmail.com a écrit :
> Bjoern Schliessmann wrote:
>> Robert Uhl wrote:
>>
>>> Because it's the language for which indentation is automatically
>>> determinable.  That is, one can copy/paste a chunk of code, hit a
>>> key and suddenly everything is nicely indented.
>> Cool, so in other languages I need to set block marks like () and {}
>> and also indent the code for readability, and in Python I indent
>> only. From my POV that's less work.
> 
> Try reading again. In Lisp, you use () and *your editor* automatically
> indents according to the universal standard, or you leave it sloppy
> until other folks reading your code convince you to get a proper
> programming editor. Indentation does not get out of sync with semantics
> because the editor virtually never misses parentheses that the Lisp
> compiler sees. Expressions keep the same meaning even if you have to
> start breaking them across lines, etc.
> 
> In Python, you group in your mind, and press indentation keys to make
> it happen in your editor. The editor cannot help that much, because it
> cannot read your mind. White space screwups in copy-paste cannot be
> fixed by the editor automatically, because it cannot read the original
> programmer's mind, and you have to fix it manually, and risk screwing
> it up.

Call us when you have an editor that reads your mind and writes the () 
for you.