I think this is true for the small percentage of people who get through that initial stage -- but it excludes the (I suspect) majority who just bounce off it.
I just bounced off it, and I have tried quite hard, repeatedly.
Idea: for the rest of us who can't simply flip syntax around in our heads, there should be an infix Lisp that tries to preserve some of the power without the weird syntaxless syntax.
There are of course several, of which maybe the longest-lived is Dylan:
I just bounced off it, and I have tried quite hard, repeatedly.
Idea: for the rest of us who can't simply flip syntax around in our heads, there should be an infix Lisp that tries to preserve some of the power without the weird syntaxless syntax.
There are of course several, of which maybe the longest-lived is Dylan:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan_(programming_language)
... but instead of Dylan's Algol- or Pascal-like syntax, do a Dylan 2 with C-style syntax?