Re: Justify introducing Lua at my workplace?

[Stephen Kellett <lua@...>]

Don Hopkins wrote:
> On the "too many parens" excuse for disliking Lisp: so why do you use 
> XML and HTML? They have TWICE the number of parens, which are pointy 
> instead of rounded, but lots of people seem to use them anyway. So "too 
> many parens" is just a convenient and shallow excuse for disliking Lisp 
> that avoids examining the real issue.

Not at all. My comments are based on 2 years of battling with parens and 
constantly getting the number of closing parens wrong. You don't find me 
making comments about Prolog because I haven't used it. Admittedly my 
experience was nearly 20 years ago, but unproductive things like that 
leave a big imprint. I avoid languages that I find unproductive.

As for the rest of your comments. Its an unusual theory, I'd never even 
thought about the name of the language before that.

Stephen
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