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Re: Lisp talk



I promised myself not to get into language wars but...

On 14 Feb 2000, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:

> IMHO, lisp syntax is one of the most elegant of all programming
> languages. Prefix notation, absence of precedence rules, uniformity,
> and a lot of other virtues make life really easy on the developer.

Come on! If you want really clean syntax, try forth. Postfix notation is
much clearer, not the least because it's much closer to how computrs
actuallly work.

> It amused me how a few people both Chen and me respect (right, Chen?)

Chen respects someone?

> My religion is better...

The infidels will be burned at the stake!

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