Re: Why don't people like lisp?

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:

max is a two-argument function, just like +.

Not in all the good languages.

Ah ok, yeah for the variadic versions in CL and Scheme, (max 2) gives 2
but (max) throws a wrong-number-of-args error.  In Haskell, max always
takes two args of an ordered type, and maximum takes a list arg.
maximum [2] gives 2 but maximum [] throws an empty list exception.
maximum just applies max repeatedly, like using reduce in Lisp.