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

[Jeff Bone]

+1, and then some.

Hence my "bad design choices" comment.

I wasn't looking for infamy in my comments, but I think I may have  
bought it nonetheless...

jb

On Jan 30, 2008, at 4:57 PM, rst at ai.mit.edu wrote:

> 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
>
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