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Article #1163Re: How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel functional language to the level of FORTH ?
From: Andrew Haley
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2011 16:21
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2011 16:21
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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. Andrew.
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From: Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid>
Subject: Re: How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel functional language to the level of FORTH ?
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