[linux-audio-dev] Writing a winner takes it all gain filter.

[Kjetil S. Matheussen]

Steve Harris:
>Hum. It's maybe not tactfuly expressed, but the s-expression syntax has a
>number of objectors with informed positions.
>
>It is near one end of a broad spectrum of languages so inevitably not to
>everyones taste.

Sure. Syntax can be more compact without s-expressions, and the syntax can 
also be more formed towards specific purposes without s-expressions as 
well, like smalltalk that use {...} instead of (lambda ()...), and C that 
use {...} instead of (begin ...), and things like accessing array values 
or setting values requires more characters with s-expression since you 
can't use special characters for common tasks. But the fact that you have 
complete control over the language in a way that a non-lisper is probably 
not able to understand without ever using lisp macros weights up for all 
those things.

However, when people normally bash lisp, its probably because of the 
following reason:
All the paranthesis looks ugly and are confusing.

For example, I actually spent almost two years programming lisp before I 
started to like lisp very much. The paranthesis confusion dissapeared 
quickly, but thinking lispish was harder. Before that, I thought python 
was the most beautiful language of them all. (I knew about 20 programming 
languages at that time.)