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weareconvo | 10 years ago

Your argument here seems to be that even if the majority of programmers find Lisp and all its derivatives to be difficult to read, we're wrong.

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AnimalMuppet|10 years ago

No, it's more of a No True Scotsman. People have written DSLs that are unreadable, but those DSLs weren't Well Designed(TM). So their failures don't count against DSLs, because only well designed DSLs count.

I think empirical evidence is that DSLs are easy to make not readable, especially as they evolve. Then again, that's true of almost everything, including assembly language programming, structured programming, object oriented programming, and functional programming (did I miss anything?).

sklogic|10 years ago

I was talking about the well designed DSLs. This should include a decent syntax.