On May 23, 9:11 am, Wade Humeniuk <········@telus.net.no.spam> wrote:
> Are you thinking Lisp has been killed? If you are, you are definitely
> wrong. I have used C# and you can see the Lisp influences all over
> it. Its there, you just have to see it.
>
Of course, you're right. I keep telling my coworkers that every
time they add a feature to C++ or C#, new keywords get created. We
need a language that lets you develop the syntax toward the problem
domain rather than a language with a hundred keywords. I'm honestly
running into trouble naming my variables, because C# has so many
keywords now.
And you're right about the laws too. I'm not being asked to conform
to a silly programming style. I was being asked to make sure I
thought about how it would be maintained, which is fair, if
condescending. :) I am just tired of being asked that every time a
new syntax style appears. That would not have been said about a dozen
duplicate loops, or a dozen nested conditionals. Something far more
likely to produce bugs.
It all worked out though.
-Ben