Code Notelets

At first, Lisp just didn't seem very readable to me. And yes, by this I meant even my own relatively simple code. But as I programmed more and more in Lisp, things became more and more readable. Probably not a surprise, right?! But actually, Lisp is a lot more readable when you are used to it , than a lot of other languages when you are used to them. Let's take a look at how this is, with some examples. Lisp is very readable because of its function-oriented syntax. Lisp statements have the format (function arg1 arg2 ... argN) Thus, any statement must begin with the name of a function. This makes it easy to tell what's going on right away by simply reading left to right within each statement. Also, starting with a function name makes syntax errors extremely easy to spot. For example, let's take a look at this incorrect Lisp code: (12 / 4) Before even getting past the 12, it should be very clear that what's wrong here is that I'm trying to call a f...