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marks@iris.mincom.oz.au (Mark Stavar) writes:


>I have a question relating to extension languages for editors:

>IS there any specific reason why one would choose to utilise an prefix notation
>language for extensions to an editor as opposed to infix or post-fix?
[...Stuff I can't answer deleted...]
>        I am seeking more information as to why the
>particular choices were made, what the advantages are that they provide,
>etc.

I got to hear a talk by Richard Stallman (the creator of EMACS)
here in November.  He was actually speaking about GCC internals,
but he commented in passing that his background was in LISP.  (He
also said that before he added parenthesis-matching to EMACS, he
could eyeball a section of LISP code and tell whether the opening
and closing parentheses matched.)  A LISP-like system is also used
(apparently) in the internal representations of "compiler objects"
in GCC.

Jim Crigler