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- From: Michael.Fleming@f2206.n124.z1.fidonet.org (Michael Fleming)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
- Subject: Why Isn't Lisp a Mainstream Language?
- Message-ID: <728069830.F00001@ocitor.fidonet>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 14:36:00 GMT
- Sender: FredGate@ocitor.fidonet
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- Don't most languages use prefix notation? For example puts("type
- your name."); seems quite similar to (print "type your name"). Why
- is one prefix and the other something else? Prefix notation is also
- common in English. We say "Put the letter in the slot" not "letter
- put slot." Or "the letter put in the slot". I am puzzled by the
- complaint that a drawback of Lisp is its use of prefix notation.
- I agree that a complex math expression can be difficult in prefix,
- but the same expression is usually difficult in infix as well.
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