[aklug] Re: Lisping

From: Chris Kunzler <ckunzler@gmail.com>
Date: Mon Aug 27 2012 - 11:20:16 AKDT

On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Tim Johnson <tim@akwebsoft.com> wrote:

>
> My first scripting language (after decades of compiled languages)
> was rebol (www.rebol.com) - developed by Carl Sassenrath, the lead
> programmer on the Amiga OS project - it is very, very lisplike
> (without the emphasis on parens) in that data and code is
> interchangeable (as in lisp) and that variable names take the form
> of 'symbols' (as in lisp). I built a lot of websites with it at
> one time, but have phased out of it for the most part. See
> www.rebol.com. The interchangeability of data and code as well as
> the symbolic approach offers new insites to the more well-know
> languages that do not have these features.
>
> I use the term lisp generically as there is common lisp, emacs
> lisp (elisp), autolisp, many versions of scheme, and clojure - to
> name a few. Parens make life easier for the language parser.
>

I normally hate overuse of parenthesis in writing, but the above
comment was hilarious.

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