[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell and scripting

[Ivan Miljenovic]

On 6 May 2010 08:25, Gregory Crosswhite <gcross at phys.washington.edu> wrote:
>
> On May 5, 2010, at 3:09 PM, Daniel Fischer wrote:
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>> Learning Lisp dialects is much harder (to a large part because of the
>> parentheses, which makes them near impossible to parse).
>
> On the contrary, the whole point of parentheses is that it makes Lisp *easier* to parse... for computers.  :-)

With the added advantage of making it easier for text editors to do
automatic indentation properly for precisely the same reason (this is
probably the only flaw with Haskell's indentation-centric coding
style).

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