[PRL] Old parentheses just fade away

Mitchell Wand wand at ccs.neu.edu
Thu Feb 15 13:37:51 EST 2007


LOL!!!

On 2/15/07, Joe Marshall <jmarshall at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>
> 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
>
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