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What the fuck is the matter with you LISPers?

Name: Anonymous 2012-01-02 0:55

I downloaded a lisp interpreter and typed in "1+1"
I got out
Error: unbound variable: 1+1
nope nope nope nope nope
Uninstalled and sanitized my HDD.

Name: Anonymous 2012-01-02 4:59

There's no reason why infix notation should be considered superior to prefix notation. It's only due to historical reasons that it's so common. Just yesterday, I was reading some proofs about formulas written in formal languages, and some of the proofs were superflously complicated because they chose to use infix and other colloquial rules - if S-Expressions were to be used, the proofs would have been elementary - just to be clear, the proofs weren't specifically about languages using infix notation, but because infix syntax was involved, they did get more complicated.

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