Re: Justify introducing Lua at my workplace?

[Peter Sommerfeld <peter@...>]

Don Hopkins schrieb:
> I suggest you find a text editor that knows how to balance parenthesis, 
> and you will never have that so-called problem with Lisp ever again.

I disagree, I've tried it a few times, also using a Lisp syntax aware 
editor but never came too the point to feel comfortable with it.

I think the point is that Lisp does not have much visual structure. 
There is nothing beside  parenthesis and identation where the eyes get 
caught. I assume the visual perception of people is different, at least 
mine is.

> Answer this question: do you hate XML and HTML twice as much as you hate 
> Lisp, because they have twice as many parenthesis?

I don't hate Lisp but prefer infix notation. Writing XML and HTML are a 
pain but have a limited scope of application which makes it less a 
problem. For sure, I have no "cognitive dissonance" with the name at all 
although my german togue does not like the "sp" on the end of the word 
and I cannot believe that this might be a reason for not using a 
programming language.

Luckily a few infix languages slowly catch up on some features of Lisp.

Peter