Re: About sweet-expression

[David Kastrup]

Nala Ginrut <address@hidden> writes:

> I try to port sweet-expression to newest Guile. Fortunately, the
> author wrote a compatible version for old Guile in 2008. So I just try
> to rewrite part of it for some obvious reasons. It woks fine now.
>
> Though some guys doesn't like sweet-expression at all (OK, they're
> real Lispers! But me too ;-)). I'm not a big fan to write Scheme like
> this:
> -----------------------
> define fibfast(n)  
>   if {n < 2}       
>     n
>     fibup(n 2 1 0)
> -----------------------
> But I think it maybe useful for newbies especially came from Python of
> C.

That's like thinking the easiest path for a Franch-speaking newbie to
learn English is to start by learning Latin.

You'll find that kind of opinion expressed mostly by people fascinated
with Latin rather than English.

-- 
David Kastrup