Back when I was still in school, I ran a few tests on real world LISP and Java (the then dominant language, this was in the late days of Sun Microsystems succes).
Turns out most LISP programs had fewer parentheses then Java had braces, parens and brackets.
I raise you this: https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/lisp_cycles.png
Directly linking the file of an XKCD should be illegal
I’ll let Randall Munroe decide that himself, considering the fact that he provides URLs for hotlinking below the comics
I don’t mean the act of embedding or direct linking in general, but in link aggregators these comics are well known for their alt text, which cannot be seen from the direct link.
I think a good practice might be embedding the comic directly in your comment along with a “source” link.
are there any JS fans who argue that it’s elegant? i thought the supposed advantage was that it’s flexible and universal.
Weirdly, I’ve seen plenty of people who appear to genuinely like Js and Ts.
I learned Lisp at uni and hated it. Thankfully that was long enough ago that I’ve forgotten everything I learned about it.
I’m sorry to hear you learned nothing.
