[FoRK] Re: Arc's out, Nu vs. newLISP, and a retort to Paul Graham's elitism

[rst at ai.mit.edu]

Jeff Bone writes:
 > This thing is ALL about making almost completely superficial tweaks  
 > to the regular Lisp lexicon of terms and forms.  

Which don't strike me as even well-chosen.  He's using '=' for a
generalized assignment operator (like the Common Lisp setf), and not
as an equality predicate.  If you write your Lisp code in a mostly
functional style, with few side effects (which is at least some
peoples' idea of good practice), this won't even save you keystrokes,
and it certainly could confuse people.

rst