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

[Tim Bradshaw]

On 2011-01-04 23:32:23 +0000, Tim X said:

> I would add that it is a mistake to judge a community of users based on
> a single forum. For example, many have complained about comp.lang.lisp
> and it is often viewed as being the lisp community. In reality, it is
> only a very small representation of lisp users from a single forum.
> There are many other lisp forums with varying levels of acceptance,
> hostility, dogma, experience, cynicism etc.

I think it's almost universally a mistake to judge anything by usenet 
news, not just CLL.  Newsgroups have always been odd and fierce places, 
and (without evidence) I think usenet must be close to dead as a 
discussion forum (as opposed  to a media distribution mechanism where 
it seems to be thriving).