From: Jason Catena <jason.catena@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Why does Acme only show text?
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:29:32 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d50d7d460907151329y54865a0evd5317088d4192da0@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9ab217670907151314n4e5c5855oda60cc527bb83422@mail.gmail.com>
Devon's anecdote is along the lines of my position. I'm sure there's
a paper somewhere that counts parenthesis versus whitespace errors,
but I haven't yet read it. I have programmed Lisp and Haskell (at two
extremes), and from this experience at least much prefer whitespace to
parentheses. In addition, I rely on design theory (esp. Tufte et al
on his web site) that reducing clutter aids comprehension, and
delimiters very much seem clutter to me.
Jason Catena
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-15 20:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-15 1:58 Jason Catena
2009-07-15 4:36 ` Rob Pike
2009-07-15 5:02 ` David Leimbach
2009-07-15 13:11 ` Charles Forsyth
2009-07-16 9:58 ` cej
2009-07-16 10:41 ` mattmobile
2009-07-16 12:11 ` michael block
2009-07-16 12:29 ` cej
2009-07-15 9:25 ` Paul Donnelly
2009-07-15 12:22 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2009-07-15 15:32 ` cej
2009-07-15 15:44 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2009-07-15 17:00 ` John Floren
2009-07-15 18:24 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2009-07-15 18:26 ` Steve Simon
2009-07-15 18:59 ` David Leimbach
2009-07-15 19:07 ` John Floren
2009-07-15 19:27 ` David Leimbach
2009-07-15 20:58 ` Chad Brown
2009-07-15 21:07 ` John Floren
2009-07-15 19:54 ` Jason Catena
2009-07-15 19:59 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-15 20:05 ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-07-15 20:14 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-07-15 20:29 ` Jason Catena [this message]
2009-07-15 20:42 ` Noah Evans
2009-07-15 20:51 ` David Leimbach
2009-07-15 21:27 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2009-07-15 23:31 ` Jason Catena
2009-07-15 21:07 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2009-07-15 21:12 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-15 21:32 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2009-07-15 20:41 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2009-07-15 21:00 ` Federico G. Benavento
2009-07-15 21:14 ` David Leimbach
2009-07-16 8:51 ` Paul Donnelly
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