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Subject: Re: Why do people like C? (Was: Comparison: Beta - Lisp)
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In article <CwJ88z.K2E@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk "Jeff Dalton" writes:

> Some of these are already questions of how Lisp is taught.  Others,
> such as the fully parenthesized syntax, require more care in
> presentation than they often receive.  It will also be interesting
> to see how much difference it makes to change the syntax (as in
> Dylan).

This is the reason why I feel that Dylan will do better than Lisp.
It uses infix, for example. That helps programmers who are used to
infix languages, altho I had no trouble, but then, I moved from Basic
to assembly to Forth to C to Lisp. Today, I might use any of them.

I realise that because of my interest in compilers that I'm probably
not a typical programmer! Maybe that explains it...

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