I’m still convince that polish notation was the biggest mistakes of Lisp. At some point, the guy who create Lisp language decide to get rid of 2 centuries of mathematic convention just because of a technical limitation that last for maybe 2 decades.
hard disagree. i’ve been a huge RPN calculator fan since middle school. not only does it eliminate a whole class of errors i know everyone makes, but it frees up the corresponding mindshare. i know back when i had math classes i was much faster than everyone else with the calculator. maybe the mandatory parentheses make it less of an issue but i still hate infix notation with a passion. and a lot of languages don’t even use the standard order of operations, nor do they use the same order of operations as each other. so either way i’m making code that looks like lisp because i can’t be fucked to learn a different order of operations for every language i use.
I’m still convince that polish notation was the biggest mistakes of Lisp. At some point, the guy who create Lisp language decide to get rid of 2 centuries of mathematic convention just because of a technical limitation that last for maybe 2 decades.
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(1- x)?hard disagree. i’ve been a huge RPN calculator fan since middle school. not only does it eliminate a whole class of errors i know everyone makes, but it frees up the corresponding mindshare. i know back when i had math classes i was much faster than everyone else with the calculator. maybe the mandatory parentheses make it less of an issue but i still hate infix notation with a passion. and a lot of languages don’t even use the standard order of operations, nor do they use the same order of operations as each other. so either way i’m making code that looks like lisp because i can’t be fucked to learn a different order of operations for every language i use.