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What makes Lisp difficult to read?

47 points · 81 comments · ibobev

  1. shevy-java · · focus · HN ↗
    (The(.

    People say we can ignore them but I find the difficult to ignore.

    But this is not the only problem with lisp syntax. I found that reading Ruby or Python is simply, on average, so much more efficient.

    I found scheme somewhat readable - see haxima game world, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sourceforge.net&#x2F;projects&#x2F;nazghul&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sourceforge.net&#x2F;projects&#x2F;nazghul&#x2F; it contains scheme files - but I would not want to write any game logic in it.

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