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Re: How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel functional language to the level of FORTH ?

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From: rupertlssmith
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 10:03
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On Jan 7, 11:47 am, Jan Burse <janbu...@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> This is quite funny to write a tractate about operator definitions
> to comp.lang.prolog. Prolog has already for some time operator
> definitions.

Yes, and you can define infix operators with it too! Making your code
nice and easy to read, and avoiding all this Neanderthal RPN stuff. I
guess some people just like to do things the hard way?
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Subject: Re: How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel
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