I still can't get my head around prefix notation. I heard Scheme is easier though. Seriously, why do practitioners of Lisp-like languages claim it's so good? I honestly cannot see the big deal, it's an old, slow, awkward and overall clunky language to use.
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Anonymous2007-12-05 14:26
lol holy shit you fucking faggots
If you just learned lisp yesterday (or you're slow and you've been learning it for 10 years but still think it's the best thing in the world), infix arithmetic is better!
Simply fucking is you idiot.
The reason prefix notation is better is because you have a single uniform representation of code and [u]data[/d], the language is homoiconic.
(= CODE DATA) ;; BITCH DO YOU UNDERSTAND??
something like 2 + 4*x is BETTER than (+ 2 (* 4 x)), ALSO 2 + (4*x) is just TOTALLY STUPID LEARN TO CONTEXT FREE PARSE IN YOUR HEAD!!!!
Look I doubt any of this is getting through to the smug lisp newbies and the C faggots (even more inexperienced than smug lisp newbies) but as a summary:
* Every language (ignoring shit ones) is different and will stretch your mind and let you program in a new way
* Lisp has prefix notation and s-expression because this works beautifully with homoiconicity, macros etc
* Infix arithmetic is more readable, easier to manipulate algebraically so it IS simply better -- this does not detract from the beauty and elegance of Lisp
* THERE IS NO LANGUAGE WAR/CONTEST, IF YOU DONT KNOW HOW TO PROGRAM WELL IN EVERY SINGLE LANGUAGE YOU FAILED ARUGING ABOUT PROGARMMING LANGUAGE CHOICE IS FOR CHILDREN AND REDDIT USERS.