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SICP

Name: Anonymous 2008-12-23 14:30

I'm now readin SICP.Its not a bad book at all.
Its notation however sucks:
(+ (* 3 (+ (* 2 4) (+ 3 5))) (+ (- 10 7) 6))
There is no way i could see which empty)( places contain which operators without reading entire string piece by piece.
This wouldn't work with larger strings.

Name: Anonymous 2008-12-24 5:30

>>33
One time some asshole gave me this same bullshit about prefix versus infix, claiming that children in civilized first-world nations (i.e., not the US) are taught to do arithmetic in prefix notation. He couldn't tell me where. He would also interrupt my and other people's conversations whenever somebody referred to something in imperial units by quickly converting to the metric equivalent and "correcting" us. He also kept switching whatever lab computer he happened to be using to Dvorak layout and sneered at others for being so inefficient as to use QWERTY. This was years ago before Asperger's diagnosis was all the rage. Others probably think you're a troll, but now I suspect you are that guy. Fuck you Jacob you stupid cunt.

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