Re: How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel functional language to the level of FORTH ?

[rusi]

On Jan 3, 6:05 pm, Tim Harig <user...@ilthio.net> wrote:
> On 2011-01-03, Didier Verna <did...@lrde.epita.fr> wrote:
>
> > Nathan <nbeen...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> Matz himself admitted that ???...Ruby is a bad rip-off of Lisp... But it
> >> is nicer to ordinary people.???
>
> > This misconception that you must be exceptionally clever to learn and
> > use Lisp really hurts the language and the community.
>
> What hurts the LISP community far more is the zealotry of its members,
> their insistance that LISP is the *only* tool for *every* job, and their
> agressiveness in trying to push it off on to everybody else -- whether
> everybody else happens want it or not.  Whether this is indicitive
> of the entire community or simply the result of those most apparent,
> I cannot say; but, it leads to the overall impression that the LISP
> community is narrowminded and neophobic.  Who would want to be part of
> such a community?

There are more mundane reasons -- like unsuitability of lisp as a
distribution platform
[See http://www.newartisans.com/about-me.html where John Wiegley
explains why he switched from lisp to C++ for his program ledger ]