As you look into the EMACS documentation, you'll see that there are
a lot of commands meant for editing Lisp code. The popular beliefs
that Lisp is hard to read or write, or necessarily inefficient, are
just superstitions. The support provided by EMACS overcomes the
problems of writing Lisp code, and of making it readable (the fact
that ";" starts a comment in Maclisp, as in assembler, also helps).
The inefficiency was eliminated when someone realized that there was
no reason why a Lisp compiler couldn't generate just as good code as,
say, a Fortran compiler, for things that can be expressed in Fortran.
The user is then free to enjoy all the features of Lisp which are not
shared by other languages, without any penalty. Reasonable Lisp
implementations provide error-handling features superior to those of
most other languages, making Lisp especially suited to writing robust
system programs.
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Anonymous2008-01-23 6:26
In MIT 6.001, we have a joke about LISP. The joke is that LISP stands for Lots of Irritating Silly Parens ;-)
>>615
Kind Sir, please learn the difference between proper character quotes, seen here: `c'
and proper string quotes, as seen here: ``the game''
An `L' is a single character, while an ``L'' contains an empty cudder at the end. Thank you for your time.