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Re: How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel functi
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Pascal J. Bourguignon |
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Re: How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel functional language to the level of FORTH ? |
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Wed, 05 Jan 2011 22:29:50 +0100 |
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Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> writes:
> In comp.lang.forth Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> lisp syntax does not use operators, or rather, it primarily relies on
>> one single match-fix operator the parenthesis. And as a match-fix
>> operator, the word ?pre-fix? doesn't make much sense because that word
>> is primarly for operators used in a linear (none nested) way.
>>
>> for detail, see:
>>
>> ?The Concepts and Confusions of Prefix, Infix, Postfix and Fully
>> Nested Notations?
>> http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/notations.html
>
> Given that the article even manages to confuse Polish notation and
> Reverse Polish notation, I strongly recommend that everyone avoid it.
As most of what he writes...
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- Re: How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel functional language to the level of FORTH ?, (continued)
- Re: How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel functional language to the level of FORTH ?, Xah Lee, 2011/01/05
- Re: How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel functional language to the level of FORTH ?, Elena, 2011/01/05
- Re: How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel functional language to the level of FORTH ?, Xah Lee, 2011/01/05
- Re: How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel functional language to the level of FORTH ?, Pascal J. Bourguignon, 2011/01/05
- Re: How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel functional language to the level of FORTH ?, Doug Hoffman, 2011/01/06
- Re: How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel functional language to the level of FORTH ?, Pascal J. Bourguignon, 2011/01/06
- Re: How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel functional language to the level of FORTH ?, w_a_x_man, 2011/01/06
- Re: How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel functional language to the level of FORTH ?, Doug Hoffman, 2011/01/07
Re: How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel functional language to the level of FORTH ?, Andrew Haley, 2011/01/05
Re: How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel functional language to the level of FORTH ?, Xah Lee, 2011/01/07
Re: How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel functional language to the level of FORTH ?, Andrew Haley, 2011/01/07
Re: How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel functional language to the level of FORTH ?, Xah Lee, 2011/01/07
Re: How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel functional language to the level of FORTH ?, Xah Lee, 2011/01/07
Re: How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel functional language to the level of FORTH ?, m_l_g3, 2011/01/18