Lisp quote

Sep. 10th, 2007 12:04 pm
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"Programming in lisp is like singing with angels: it's bliss, but no amount of it produces a correctly running executable."

Date: 2007-09-10 12:51 pm (UTC)
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Whereas, confusingly, programming in BLISS doesn't look like bliss at all.

Date: 2007-09-10 01:36 pm (UTC)
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Although, hmm, perhaps I speak hastily there. Wikipedia links to a USENET post talking about BLISS's macro processor, which sounds like even more fun to abuse than cpp. Shame the rest of the language looks so ugly, in that case.

Date: 2007-09-12 01:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com
Oh I see, I'd never even heard of BLISS.

Is that discrepancy so surprising? Aren't "not looking like bliss at all" and "being fun to abuse the preprocessor of" both caused by having a large potential but being annoying restrictive in implementation?