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Re: FINALLY: Another language adopts Smalltalk's keyword -syntax

Panu

2007-12-22, 4:25 am

Stefan Schmiedl wrote:
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> And "readable" is what you have learned to read.

True. But most people on this list learned to
read natural language first. Most of them probably
learned to read from left to right. Therefore,
Smalltalk is more readable for most people.

So this "everything is relative" argument has a
misleading flaw. Of course 'easy' means different
things to different people. What really matters
is what is easy for most people.

Now, if you invest your time in learning to read
Lisp (which I've done), the question still remains,
does it make Lisp more readable to you, than Smalltalk,
after a similar investment in time to learn it.

-Panu Viljamaa

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