Re: Why is LISP syntax superior?



Juan R. wrote:
Ken Tilton wrote:

No, no, no. You are doing fine, don't get into the troll-not-troll
thing, we love trolls here.

It is obvious you are a troll, anyway. Asking a question when you
already had your mind made up,


false


responding to every article,


This may be your problem.


whining
about nonsense like how to write highly efficient mathematical notation
in a programming language. Don't worry, these dolts will never pick up
on that stupidity. jeez, mathematicians encode exponents using 2d
orientation and decremented font size - what programming language does
that?


I can understand ignorance but i am not polite with stupid and arrogant
people.

I doubt what is your definition of PL, but if Scheme is a PL for you...

TeX code c^2 can be encoded as s-expr via

(msup (mi c) (mn 2))

You are not as smart as you think you are. I meant what text editor (besides, mine of course)* allows you to edit mathematics in wysiwyg fashion (and, no, I do not mean so-called equation editors that feel like erector sets) and then what computer language understands the output of that editor?

Perhaps now the (I thought) obvious will not elude you: math has a highly evolved efficient scheme for conveying its abstract semantics. Judging a language by how well it stacks up against that is... a great troll?

Infix gives one tiny win over prefix, and then.... all PLs suck. My final thought is that one programs with a PL, one does not do mathematics symbolically such as solve an algebra problem by moving down the screen typing in C or Fortran or Lisp. So all you have to do is translate from the final mathematics result to the PL. There is a difference between working in a notation and translating to one.

But do not worry, these guys always respond literally to whatever is put in front of them, even after the troll is pointed out.

Now what was the damn joke! "Three lines are in a small particle about to decay and there is only one wormhole..."?

kt

* Anyone actually know of a good one?



Fractions, vertical orientation. What PL does that?


TeX code {a \over b} is typed as

(mfrac (mi a) (mi b))

You are not listening. I want to type it in wysiwyg and see it vertically with these the keystrokes "a" "/" "b"! And have my language understand it needs to divide. Fortran might make a comeback.

k

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