Python syntax in Lisp and Scheme

[Hartmann Schaffer]

In article <xcvpth8rcfh.fsf at famine.ocf.berkeley.edu>,
	tfb at famine.OCF.Berkeley.EDU (Thomas F. Burdick) writes:
> Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk <qrczak at knm.org.pl> writes:
> 
>> I find the Lisp syntax hardly readable when everything looks alike,
>> mostly words and parentheses, and when every level of nesting requires
>> parens. I understand that it's easier to work with by macros, but it's
>> harder to work with by humans like I.
> 
> You find delimited words more difficult than symbols?  For literate
> people who use alphabet-based languages, I find this highly suspect.
> Maybe readers of only ideogram languages might have different
> preferences, but we are writing in English here...

well, there are a few occasions where symbols are preferrable.  just
imagine mathematics with words only

hs

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