LISP style not readable

Posted Aug 26, 2003 15:46 UTC (Tue) by Dareth (guest, #14475)
In reply to: One reason manpower is short... by rganesan
Parent article: State of the GnuCash project

Syntax is syntax for most languages...

Pascal,C,Java, hell even Perl.

Lisp just doesn't fit the normal mold.
Most programmers can sit down and read code examples and pick up
the syntax of the language. Some quick testing, writing examples,
modifying code and you got the basic idea.

Look at the basic Welcome or Hello World .scm file.

I can follow what it is doing, but I wouldn't want to just make
arbitrary changes to see what if. To many "gotchas" especially with the nesting of the braces.

The comments are helpful.. but some heavy tutorials will be needed to get coders past the initial "WTF kind of code is this!" reaction.