← Back to context Comment by jimbokun 2 months ago Can you quantify that? 3 comments jimbokun Reply speed_spread 2 months ago Let's just say that the weights of opening and closing parentheses do not cancel out. SoftTalker 2 months 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 months 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.
speed_spread 2 months ago Let's just say that the weights of opening and closing parentheses do not cancel out. SoftTalker 2 months 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 months 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 2 months 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 months 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.
Let's just say that the weights of opening and closing parentheses do not cancel out.
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.
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.