Timeline for Wrapping my mind around prefix notation?
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| Jul 4 at 9:54 | answer | added | Kaz | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 29, 2011 at 15:41 | comment | added | Rook | Not really; "intuitive" is intuitive because you've learned it in a form of mathematical conventions for >20+ years. Since only LISP and maybe a few other languages use this convention, and you'll still learn the other one much more, it will hardly ever become equally "intuitive". And we're talking only about simple expressions here (2+3 ... how would you like to try a "half a page" liner? :) | |
| Aug 29, 2011 at 10:07 | comment | added | SK-logic | What's wrong with the prefix notation? Almost all the languages are using it. Function calls are almost always prefix. | |
| Aug 29, 2011 at 9:55 | answer | added | Vatine | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 27, 2011 at 21:43 | comment | added | M.C. | At first it seemed unintuitive, but now I think it's wonderful, and I've mostly done reading. It is actually how we speak: "The sum of..., the product of..." However, it does require a different kind of reading. Now you simply apply the operator to all the arguments, instead of reading them in a line. | |
| Aug 18, 2011 at 18:20 | comment | added | Robbie | User RPL is by far my favorite flavor of LISP. It doesn't even have any parentheses! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPL_(programming_language) I miss using my HP 50g :-( | |
| Aug 18, 2011 at 18:04 | answer | added | Rainer Joswig | timeline score: 5 | |
| Aug 4, 2011 at 14:12 | vote | accept | Vivian River | ||
| Aug 4, 2011 at 12:50 | answer | added | Falcon | timeline score: 7 | |
| Aug 4, 2011 at 12:49 | answer | added | thorsten müller | timeline score: 6 | |
| Aug 4, 2011 at 12:47 | answer | added | Joris Timmermans | timeline score: 7 | |
| Aug 4, 2011 at 12:43 | comment | added | user7043 | Apart from practice, you mean? | |
| Aug 4, 2011 at 12:39 | history | asked | Vivian River | CC BY-SA 3.0 |