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On Apr 22, 2004, at 5:34 AM, Norman Gray wrote: > This is why RNC compact syntax is more readable -- you're not squinting > to extract the meaning from amidst all the visual noise. And I at > least > find something like > > (template "@* | node()" > (copy > (apply-templates "@* | node()"))) > > has more chunkable structure, and is simply easier to read (and I'm not > an old-timer lisp maniac). > So, does this support Paul Graham's assertion that every language eventually becomes Lisp? [1] -jimbo Excelsior! XML Marshaller for Cocoa http://www.homepage.mac.com/jimbokun/Excelsior.html [1] Paraphrased from: http://www.paulgraham.com/popular.html "Over time, successive new programming languages have taken more and more features from Lisp. There is no longer much left to copy before the language you've made is Lisp."
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