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Re: How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel functi


From: Andrew Haley
Subject: Re: How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel functional language to the level of FORTH ?
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2011 10:21:13 -0600
User-agent: tin/1.9.2-20070201 ("Dalaruan") (UNIX) (Linux/2.6.32.23-170.fc12.x86_64 (x86_64))

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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