26 Feb
2017
26 Feb
'17
12:28 a.m.
On 25 Feb 2017, at 17:31, Clem Cole <clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
LISP -- Lots of Insipidly Silly Parens
Lots of Irritating Single Parens
(Although why anyone who has looked at the tail of some bit of C-derived language with its
apparently endless sequence of close braces, carefully arranged one-per line to maximise
the wasted screen real-estate would say this is beyond me. One of Python's few good
features is that it is impossible to do this when writing Python -- although somewhere, no
doubt, there are coding style guidelines which say that Python definitions must be
separated from the following definition by 1 + number-of-nesting-levels blank lines.)