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What makes Lisp difficult to read? (paultm.nl)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/1365818

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[–] [S] 3 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Did you read the article? This has nothing to do with familiarity.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago* (6 children)

    Yes, but they're wrong. All else equal some of vthat stuff might would matter as optimization, though

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 1 week ago (5 children)

    "They're wrong, that's the way it is". Great argument. Very convincing.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago* (1 child)

    Their first comment provided reasoning. This "because that's the way it is" framing is unfair.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 week ago

    The article is 90% about brackets and Polish notation is nearly a footnote. How is the reasoning that "it's mostly familiarity" sound? When I call doSomething(param, arg, whatever) moving over the left bracket a word isn't going to confuse people because of "familiarity".

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Some things are obvious, and you can write a whole essay without the base assertion being correct ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    well, if familiarity can be ruled out, surely there is a quadruply-blind study then? how many participants were there? you need to test teaching lisp first then c and on another group the other way around. you also need to have groups of untrained people and show lisp first, then c, another group for the other way around.

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