From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@9fans.net Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 08:29:39 +0000 From: comeau@panix.com (Greg Comeau) Message-ID: References: , Subject: Re: [9fans] nice quote Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6af7ffb0-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 In article , Eris Discordia wrote: >> I must say that the Lisp version is much simpler and clearer to me, while >> the C version is mildly baffling. Does that make me a wizard who can >> hardly read simple C code, or is it just a matter of what you and I are >> respectively more comfortable with? > >I'd like to concur with the implication that it's all a matter of what >mindset one carries but I'm also tempted to exclaim since I find the C >version straightforward--it closely follows how one would do a bubble sort >on paper. Or perhaps even this assertion is shaped by my personal >impressions. A kind of empirical comment: What you first learned, or at least what you first learned that worked, often seems to wire us to that way. This seems to bring forth biases establishing your programming universe versus somebody else's. -- Greg Comeau / 4.3.10.1 with C++0xisms now in beta! Comeau C/C++ ONLINE ==> http://www.comeaucomputing.com/tryitout World Class Compilers: Breathtaking C++, Amazing C99, Fabulous C90. Comeau C/C++ with Dinkumware's Libraries... Have you tried it?