Re: What's missing in ELisp that makes people want to use cl-lib?

[Po Lu]

João Távora <joaotavora@gmail.com> writes:

> That's a clever and interesting perspective actually, but I would
> tend to say no.  Programming languages are still written and read
> by humans.  Human brains aren't designed the same way processors
> are.  For one they aren't "designed" at all.  And we don't consume
> information the same way a metal likes to, we don't unroll loops,
> and at least I don't prefetch all of the supermarket shelf when
> someone tells me to get olives, etc, etc.  Plus I'm horrible at
> parallelism.  And we don't speak with reduced instruction sets,
> we have many words with nuanced meanings.

No, but humans are less still adapted for processing dozens of
obliquely-named constructs which wreck havoc on the control and data
flow of many a form.

Suppose that to retrieve a shopping cart, it were mandatory to connect
half a dozen unmarked pulleys and pneumatic tubes to one another in a
particular arrangement before depositing your coin in one end of the
contrivance, rather than to merely insert the coin in a small
receptacle.  Would you not be so deterred from availing yourself of the
gratis trolley rentals?