From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andrew Haley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel functional language to the level of FORTH ? Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2011 10:21:13 -0600 Message-ID: References: <80ceeca0-1d32-47d1-ba96-feb4d9729c3a@v17g2000yqv.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1294262005 27879 80.91.229.12 (5 Jan 2011 21:13:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 21:13:25 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 05 22:13:20 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PaafV-00060I-UP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Jan 2011 22:13:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48700 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PaafV-0000E8-JY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Jan 2011 16:13:17 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!news2.euro.net!feeder.news-service.com!ecngs!feeder.ecngs.de!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.supernews.com!news.supernews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2011 10:21:13 -0600 Original-Newsgroups: comp.lang.functional, comp.lang.lisp, gnu.emacs.help, comp.lang.forth, comp.lang.prolog User-Agent: tin/1.9.2-20070201 ("Dalaruan") (UNIX) (Linux/2.6.32.23-170.fc12.x86_64 (x86_64)) Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Trace: sv3-k5L6bK2zs/CD/jsFX9RefXHZ6unWgdn+L5donax6/8Ek91Dj2IEgpW3S7u5rGwu6cSShqVdSfCA37Xx!jwUtnrlPTcUROWcooHDtQO4mKj4SnKvH53EJwGAzVYyjFH0YwKpt4zuSvmXw4gyo/0L+ExI5RDa4!mYt1GCzR1Q== Original-X-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/abuse.html X-DMCA-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1913 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu comp.lang.functional:69124 comp.lang.lisp:297298 gnu.emacs.help:184020 comp.lang.forth:160368 comp.lang.prolog:44040 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 05 Jan 2011 16:10:44 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:78231 Archived-At: In comp.lang.forth Xah Lee 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. Andrew.