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Re: How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel functi
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Jonathan Groll |
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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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Thu, 06 Jan 2011 10:57:48 +0200 |
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On Wed, 05 Jan 2011 22:29:50 +0100, "Pascal J. Bourguignon"
<pjb@informatimago.com> wrote:
> 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...
Indeed. Most people think that because it is published on the internet
it must be right.
Cheers,
Jonathan
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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