Common Lisp

* (nth 1 '(1 2 3 4))

2
* (elt "1234" 1)

#\2

Explain this bullshit. argument order

I wonder if w could have language like Lisp but with functions not in form (function arg1 arg1) but in known from C form function(arg1 arg2) ?

I read about math prove, that those syntaxes are equivalent and one can be transformed to other and viceversa, do you know it's name?