Comment by speed_spread 2 months ago Let's just say that the weights of opening and closing parentheses do not cancel out. 2 comments speed_spread Reply 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.
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.