← Back to context Comment by jimbokun 7 hours ago Can you quantify that? 3 comments jimbokun Reply speed_spread 7 hours ago Let's just say that the weights of opening and closing parentheses do not cancel out. jimbokun 2 hours ago You would need to show that, including the parens, the average Lisp program requires more tokens than Python.I'm not sure that's true. Because Lisp has a lot of facilities for writing more concise code that are difficult to achieve without the parens. SoftTalker 6 hours ago I've had way more issues with proper indentation in Python and YAML than I have with parenthesis in lisp. Meaningful whitespace is about the worst idea I've seen in a programming language.
speed_spread 7 hours ago Let's just say that the weights of opening and closing parentheses do not cancel out. jimbokun 2 hours ago You would need to show that, including the parens, the average Lisp program requires more tokens than Python.I'm not sure that's true. Because Lisp has a lot of facilities for writing more concise code that are difficult to achieve without the parens. SoftTalker 6 hours ago I've had way more issues with proper indentation in Python and YAML than I have with parenthesis in lisp. Meaningful whitespace is about the worst idea I've seen in a programming language.
jimbokun 2 hours ago You would need to show that, including the parens, the average Lisp program requires more tokens than Python.I'm not sure that's true. Because Lisp has a lot of facilities for writing more concise code that are difficult to achieve without the parens.
SoftTalker 6 hours ago I've had way more issues with proper indentation in Python and YAML than I have with parenthesis in lisp. Meaningful whitespace is about the worst idea I've seen in a programming language.
Let's just say that the weights of opening and closing parentheses do not cancel out.
You would need to show that, including the parens, the average Lisp program requires more tokens than Python.
I'm not sure that's true. Because Lisp has a lot of facilities for writing more concise code that are difficult to achieve without the parens.
I've had way more issues with proper indentation in Python and YAML than I have with parenthesis in lisp. Meaningful whitespace is about the worst idea I've seen in a programming language.