On Apr 22, 2004, at 5:34 AM, Norman Gray wrote:
> This is why RNC compact syntax is more readable -- you're not squinting
> to extract the meaning from amidst all the visual noise. And I at
> least
> find something like
>
> (template "@* | node()"
> (copy
> (apply-templates "@* | node()")))
>
> has more chunkable structure, and is simply easier to read (and I'm not
> an old-timer lisp maniac).
>
So, does this support Paul Graham's assertion that every language
eventually becomes Lisp? [1]
-jimbo
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[1] Paraphrased from:
http://www.paulgraham.com/popular.html
"Over time, successive new programming languages have taken more and
more features from Lisp. There is no longer much left to copy before
the language you've made is Lisp."
