<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Eduardo Bellani</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ebellani@gmail.com">ebellani@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 5:28 PM<br>Subject: Re: [plt-scheme] Sweet-expressions on PLT<br>To: Grant Rettke <<a href="mailto:grettke@acm.org">grettke@acm.org</a>><br><br><br>No man, I think I've not made myself as clear as I could.<br>
<br>I'm looking at sweet-expressions not as a way for me to learn scheme more easily (that<br>would be cool, but it's not my main goal), but to teach it/showcase it to other people,<br>
because what I think the "problem" sweet-expressions fix is the readability of the code,<br>which for me (and I'm pretty sure for my target audience, consisted of ruby/java/c++ and some python guys, too),<br>
is somewhat hard to read.<br><br>Thanks for the tips though. <br><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 5:22 PM, Grant Rettke <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:grettke@acm.org" target="_blank">grettke@acm.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div>On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 11:50 AM, Eduardo Bellani <<a href="mailto:ebellani@gmail.com" target="_blank">ebellani@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> I'm new to LISP/scheme (I'm from the ruby world), trying a lot of stuff to<br>
> make sense of this new environment. One particular thing I've found that would<br>
> really smooth the line of effort is sweet-expressions<br>
> (<a href="http://www.dwheeler.com/readable/" target="_blank">http://www.dwheeler.com/readable/</a>). The author was gentle enough even to<br>
> provide a why do it here <a href="http://www.dwheeler.com/readable/retort-lisp-can-be-readable.html" target="_blank">http://www.dwheeler.com/readable/retort-lisp-can-be-readable.html</a> .<br>
<br>
</div>Hi Eduardo,<br>
<br>
It makes sense that you want to make the learning process easier, but<br>
avoiding s-expressions won't help you here.<br>
<br>
Take the approach like you would any other development task, first<br>
learn how it is supposed to work, and then decided for yourself<br>
whether you want to do it differently.<br>
<br>
Ultimately you would be worse off if you used sweet-expressions but<br>
weren't even sure what so bad about s-expressions to begin with, and,<br>
there isn't anything wrong with s-expressions, you get over it in a<br>
few hours.<br>
</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br></div></div><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">-- <br>Eduardo Bellani<br><br><a href="http://www.cnxs.com.br" target="_blank">www.cnxs.com.br</a><br><br>"What is hateful to you, do not to your fellow men. That is the entire Law; all the rest is commentary." The Talmud<br>
</div></div></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Eduardo Bellani<br><br><a href="http://www.cnxs.com.br">www.cnxs.com.br</a><br><br>"What is hateful to you, do not to your fellow men. That is the entire Law; all the rest is commentary." The Talmud<br>