You are either trolling or just very mixed up, the important thing is not how quickly machines can parse it or how quickly you can write a lexer but how quickly humans can parse it and what they can do with it. C is not the best here but it is way ahead of any kind of useless functional language.
On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 12:08:26PM +0200, Thomas de Grivel wrote: > Before even thinking of "fixing it" i'm trying to see if i'm alone in my > quest. I like code correctness and feel what's done in OpenBSD is epic given > the shitty language all the devs are dealing with. I love this much epic. > > Now if you want to know what code I'm writing, first I'm writing english > because as you can see when a bring s-exp i'm answered "asm" and > "brainfuck". Seriously did you even google the thing ? > > And i never criticized the semantics of the code. Just that it's a 1 month > project to build a fudgy C lexer, when parsing s-exp is more powerful and > takes 2 days while watching pr0n, and 2 hours without. > > This is clearly off topic, and don't mean to rewrite an OS but there clearly > is a need for cleaner programming languages in this world. I used to love C > and i'm still quite proficient at it but when i had a glimpse of Lisp i > realized how narrow was my vision of programming. And how much i trusted the > languages i used to mean something.
