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Re:The Lisp Curse (2011) by Jtsummers on Thursday February 25, 2016 @01:00PM (#11176253)
Infix is mostly used, in programming, within mathematical and logical expressions. But the majority of my code spends its time in some kind of chain of function calls, which has the verb first. Maybe if I did more with OO-languages I'd see it differently?
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Re:The Lisp Curse (2011) by AnimalMuppet on Thursday February 25, 2016 @01:19PM (#11176435)
Interesting. OO syntax often is object.function(arguments), which is subject-verb-object order. I never thought of it that way before. You can throw some adverbs in among the arguments, too.
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Re:The Lisp Curse (2011) by knughit on Thursday February 25, 2016 @09:49PM (#11179525)
That's correspondent with how Java and especially Obj-C and super especially AppleScript programmers try to write code that reads like COBOL, er, English.
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