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Comment by AnimalMuppet

Well, let's see.

Lisp has no syntactic cruft? It has (almost) no syntax, so there's less room for cruft. That said... cons? car? cdr? That's your syntax? That's not cruft? Seriously? There may be less total cruft, but the percentage of cruft might still be higher...

There's less overall to learn? If you mean to master the syntax, sure, that's true.

You'll be writing real, useful programs in Lisp sooner than you could with other languages? That's a much more arguable point. There's more to being able to effectively program in Lisp than learning the syntax (as there is for every language). Is that "more" easier to learn for Lisp than for other languages? I have no data, but for the web site's claim, I'd at least say "citation needed".

parent AnimalMuppet 12 years ago

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