Fwd: [plt-scheme] Sweet-expressions on PLT

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From: Eduardo Bellani <ebellani at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 5:28 PM
Subject: Re: [plt-scheme] Sweet-expressions on PLT
To: Grant Rettke <grettke at acm.org>


No man, I think I've not made myself as clear as I could.

I'm looking at sweet-expressions not as a way for me to learn scheme more
easily (that
would be cool, but it's not my main goal), but to teach it/showcase it to
other people,
because what I think the "problem" sweet-expressions fix is the readability
of the code,
which for me (and I'm pretty sure for my target audience, consisted of
ruby/java/c++ and some python guys, too),
is somewhat hard to read.

Thanks for the tips though.

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 5:22 PM, Grant Rettke <grettke at acm.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 11:50 AM, Eduardo Bellani <ebellani at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I'm new to LISP/scheme (I'm from the ruby world), trying a lot of stuff
> to
> > make sense of this new environment. One particular thing I've found that
> would
> > really smooth the line of effort is sweet-expressions
> > (http://www.dwheeler.com/readable/). The author was gentle enough even
> to
> > provide a why do it here
> http://www.dwheeler.com/readable/retort-lisp-can-be-readable.html .
>
> Hi Eduardo,
>
> It makes sense that you want to make the learning process easier, but
> avoiding s-expressions won't help you here.
>
> Take the approach like you would any other development task, first
> learn how it is supposed to work, and then decided for yourself
> whether you want to do it differently.
>
> Ultimately you would be worse off if you used sweet-expressions but
> weren't even sure what so bad about s-expressions to begin with, and,
> there isn't anything wrong with s-expressions, you get over it in a
> few hours.
>



-- 
Eduardo Bellani

www.cnxs.com.br

"What is hateful to you, do not to your fellow men. That is the entire Law;
all the rest is commentary." The Talmud



-- 
Eduardo Bellani

www.cnxs.com.br

"What is hateful to you, do not to your fellow men. That is the entire Law;
all the rest is commentary." The Talmud
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