← Back to context Comment by speed_spread 7 hours ago Let's just say that the weights of opening and closing parentheses do not cancel out. 2 comments speed_spread Reply 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.
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.