About those parenthesis....

According to my timepiece, we should be hearing about how horrible the
parenthesis are and how much more `natural' infix notation is, right...
about.... NOW.

Well, I may be a few seconds early, but I'm curious to hear from the
newbies that are no longer using training wheels as to how awful they
thought parenthesis were at the beginning, how long it took them to get
used to them, and what they think now.

(Extra points to those that have attempted to write a production-level
parser for C, Java, or other such language recently.)

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After this, we will discuss `stand-alone' images and whether Scheme
programmers are somehow purer and will therefore enter Heaven in fewer
flips of Purgatory-space than Lisp programmers. Brandon J. Van Every
will analyze why it is impossible to program games in Lisp (he shows
that this is a weak form of his thesis that it is impossible to program
anything in any language). Robert Maas will give his report on the job
market.

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