[PRL] Old parentheses just fade away

[Matthias Felleisen]

On Feb 15, 2007, at 7:54 AM, Dale Vaillancourt wrote:

> I haven't seen a page like that, but Shriram used that transition in
> his LL1 talk while he was explaining the DFA macro.  Googling "Swine
> Before Perl" yields the slides.  -Dale


He did and we preached the idea for years and years in the TS!  
workshops.

It is also a habit of mine to use quasi-quotes from songs to make
my point but your subject line and your message body use two
different songs so it isn't clear to me whether you're looking
for specific words/phrases or just the idea.

I do say that I heard this idea in Indiana.

I also won't claim any specific words but I did get Cormac
to graduate with the "fade away" line.

-- Matthias





>
> On Feb 14, 2007, at 11:26 PM, Mitchell Wand wrote:
>
>> I recall seeing a while back a page explaining how an experienced
>> Scheme programmer no longer "sees" parentheses-- he showed an
>> example several times, talking about it and painting the parens in
>> lighter and lighter shades of gray.
>>
>> Do any of you remember seeing this?  I haven't thought of a good
>> way of searching for it.  I don't remember what the example was.
>>
>> --Mitch
>>
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