Pereira%SRI-AI@sri-unix.UUCP (06/11/84)
Stan Shebs arguments (?) are irrefutable, based as they are on taste and prejudice rather than rational analysis of the problem. So here comes my favorite equally ``irrefutable'' argument: If Lisp syntax is so good *for people*, why is it that the great majority of mathematic and logic texts (even the Lisp 1.5 book) use operator and function(args) syntax? Might it be that the S-expression syntax wasn't meant for *human* consumption even by the inventor of Lisp? -- Fernando
alan@allegra.UUCP (Alan S. Driscoll) (06/20/84)
> If Lisp syntax is so good *for people*, why is it that > the great majority of mathematic and logic texts (even > the Lisp 1.5 book) use operator and function(args) syntax? > Might it be that the S-expression syntax wasn't meant for > *human* consumption even by the inventor of Lisp? It certainly wasn't! Have the Lisp hackers out there forgotten about M-expressions and evalquote? -- Alan S. Driscoll AT&T Bell Laboratories