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From: Bruce Hoult <br...@hoult.org>
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Subject: Re: New Lisp ?
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In article <3C2A856C.52C5B...@his.com>, Feuer <fe...@his.com> wrote:

> Bruce Hoult wrote:
> > I can happily use either.  Or paren-less prefix (Logo, ML).  Or postfix
> > (PostScript, Forth).  But even after much use of the others I find that
> > I do prefer "conventional" syntax.
> 
> The advantage of a language with significant syntax is that it allows
> the programmer to quickly and easily write certain kinds of code.  For 
> example, ML and Haskell syntax make it easy to write curried functions
> and function applications, as well as infix operators.  It would be
> quite annoying to call a simple function by saying (((foldl f) h) lst)

That's true, but it seems awfully arbitrary.

How often do you find that you need to put function arguments in an 
uncomfortable order so that the automatic currying works out right?

-- Bruce