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

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From: Pascal J. Bourguignon
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2011 21:29

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Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> writes:

> In comp.lang.forth Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> lisp syntax does not use operators, or rather, it primarily relies on
>> one single match-fix operator the parenthesis. And as a match-fix
>> operator, the word ?pre-fix? doesn't make much sense because that word
>> is primarly for operators used in a linear (none nested) way.
>> 
>> for detail, see:
>> 
>> ?The Concepts and Confusions of Prefix, Infix, Postfix and Fully
>> Nested Notations?
>> http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/notations.html
>
> Given that the article even manages to confuse Polish notation and
> Reverse Polish notation, I strongly recommend that everyone avoid it.

As most of what he writes...

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