Legacy and Lisp

I'm terrible at updating this but still feel I should, saddly it's a life one.

Works been going a bit slow so I've been asking the other guys on some project to do as "training/downtime" things. I almost regret it, I've herad about it being the back bone for some of the systems but I don't really want to learn it. It being Lisp.

I don't hate lisp, but I just don't like working with it. Python took quite a few things from it but one thing they didn't take was it's general syntax. I was annoyed with python indentation at the start but Lisp acts like the illegitimate offspring of C and assembly. Mostly for it's polish (not even reverse polish) approach to operate syntax. A quick example to show would be a while loop and it's set up.

(setq a 0)
(while (< a 20) (setq a (+ a 1))
  ;worthwhile stuff goes here!
  (print a)
)

That's a lot of parenthesis for something that counts from 0 to 19. I get it and easily see it becoming maddening balancing them. Thankfully I can farm out a lot of it by setting variables to be functions and going from there. At least it got me learning.