[PRL] Old parentheses just fade away

[Joe Marshall]

Kenny Tilton says:

I like to ask people who complain about parentheses in Lisp if they are bothered
by all the spaces between words in a newspaper.

On 2/14/07, Mitchell Wand <wand at ccs.neu.edu> 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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~jrm