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>>80
You can find it as readable as you want; that doesn't change the fact that anyone who has had any schooling at all will recognize standard operator precedence.

Lisp is not a mathematician's language, by any means. There's a good reason for that.

>>81
that doesn't change the fact that anyone who has had any schooling at all will recognize standard operator precedence.
You're joking right?
Find a random adult and give them a sample calculation, say "3+4/2*8-1" and I'd bet a good third of them will group left to right

>>82
Find a random adult who is capable of writing a computer program in any language and they won't.

>>81
Lisp is not a mathematician's language, by any means. There's a good reason for that.
Yes, because they have Computer Algebra packages that not only have infix arithmetic, but proper superscripting/subscripting, actual 2D matrices, that recognise the stupid way that 'x' composes when used for the cartesian product of more than 2 sets and all the other syntactic monstrosities that mathematicians have inflicted upon themselves over the centuries.

Lisp/Forth try to modify something as basic as order of operators.
C doesn't try such cryptic bullshit and uses sane, normal and easily readable syntax(C++ templates excluded).

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>>85
Lisp/Forth try to modify something as basic as order of operators.
Is this the part where I point out that Lisp doesn't have operators
C doesn't try such cryptic bullshit
lol

>>87
WAYBT?

To all the folks talking about precedence of math operators: no fucking shit. We all know what they are.

Remember this all started with the following python expression:

a <= b is not c in d or e

What fucking math operators are in there? None. There is one equality operator there, except it has different precedence than in math (where it would generally have the highest precedence.)

And I've worked with python for years in industry, and many folks from many different libraries and frameworks really do write lines of code like that. Unnecessary parens are considered anti-zen-of-python. It's fucking bullshit.

There is one equality operator there, except it has different precedence than in math (where it would generally have the highest precedence.)
HIBT?

>>90
Maybe >>89 is Australian

>>90
*lowest