Re: Spell Checking for Non European Languages, and for Conlangs

Guess its a matter of taste... I intensely dislike the overuse of
brackets though, because I think that the way most programmers lay out
their code it hinders readability a lot. I love the way python deals
with blocks... indentation only... I don't think that would work for
lisp though. Maybe there is no alternative to bracketing in lisp...
doesn't mean I have to like it. :(
 As for C++.... I agree with you... god knows why so many programmers
use it. *shrugs* There might be a good reason I'm missing, being a poor
hobby programmer rather than a professional.

>Hi!
>
>Chris Bates <christopher.bates@...> writes:
>
>
>>Lisp is supposedly good for that sort of thing too, but it
>>suffers from serious bracket addiction a la C. Not elegant at all.
>>
>>
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>Suffers?  Not elegant??  What do you mean?  It is very, very, very,
>very nice and concise! :-)
>
>Lisp has another great advantage over other languages: there is no
>difference between data and code.  Therefore, you usually do not write
>any parsers for your data files, but simply write the data as Lisp.
>
>I love that language! :-)
>
>Ok, a layout rule would be nice...
>
>**Henrik
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>PS: It is not an ultimate love, though.  For conlanging, a good
>    mixture of Lisp, Perl and C++ serves me best.  I should not
>    program in C++, though; it is so primitive and yet so
>    unnecessarily complex.  I'm definitely not in love with it.  I
>    will switch to Haskell or Clean in the future, I promise.
>
>
>

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