There's a line in The Matrix where Neo asks Cypher why he looks at the raw green code of the Matrix. He replies "You have to...and all I see is blonde, brunette, redhead" (or something to that effect).
Every time somebody proposes to "fix" Lisp's syntax it reminds me of that scene. It sounds like a newbie Lisp programmer who hasn't yet experienced the thrill of seeing beyond the parentheses. And the mind-boggling compositional utility that comes from leaving them alone.
Every time somebody proposes to "fix" Lisp's syntax it reminds me of that scene. It sounds like a newbie Lisp programmer who hasn't yet experienced the thrill of seeing beyond the parentheses. And the mind-boggling compositional utility that comes from leaving them alone.