[arethuza]

I think that's a bit harsh - this was a complex system written in Common Lisp that had a front end in NeWS with some C plumbing linking the two together.

PostScript and Lisp are actually pretty similar when the former is used in an interactive graphical environment (i.e. not on a printer!).

[tambourine_man]

I said it in jest, sorry. I wrote a bit of PostScript because I absolutely had to and it was painful, even though I was thrilled to eventually push through.

But I'm very particular about syntax, so the reverse polish notation was enough to upset me. Needless to say, I appreciate Lisp for its power and conceptual simplicity but would never choose to use it.

[arethuza]

Out of interest, which programming language do you prefer?

[tambourine_man]

Oh, the most boring ones. Anything with a C-like syntax is off to a good start.

I like pragmatic languages, with minimum boilerplate.

If I had to list: C, JavaScript, Python and PHP, in no particular order. And I like Bash too, even if it’s less a language and more just a thin veneer of control flows, loops and variables for controlling other executables, it’s still quite useful.