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What makes Lisp difficult to read?

47 points · 81 comments · ibobev

  1. DonaldFisk · · focus · HN ↗
    Some of the Lisp features that people don't like are built into the language. If you don't like them, there are other languages you can use instead. If you're already using a language you prefer, why are you complaining about Lisp?

    Some features are dialect dependent. If you like the idea of a Lisp, but specifically don't like e.g. Common Lisp, Scheme and Clojure are alternatives. If you don't like these either, nothing is stopping you from writing your own Lisp and using that instead. I have. Lisp is one of the easiest languages to implement and there are two excellent books explaining how to do just that.

    And if your problem is just with formatting or getting the parentheses right, you're probably using the wrong editor. You won't have these problems with EMACS.

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