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The real test of a programming language is its readabilty.

I looked at lisp many times and it just doesn't do it for me.



That might be, on the other side, I consider Lisp highly readable, but quite a few modern languages quite unreadable. For example parsing type signatures with a complex syntax.

Any style of writing you are not familiar with will require a lot of training. Try reading anything written in the Greek alphabet for example.


Fair enough.


If you've not grown up accustomed to C-style syntax, I assure you that C is less readable. Even a for loop is crazy in C.




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