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A comment on The Lisp Curse (2011). Parent comment
You tried to prove your theory by finding positive evidence. But the evidence is very weak and far fetched.
> which support the standpoint that symbols-and-infix arithmetics is good for humans, based on how their mind works.
Given that we largely don't know how the mind 'works', that's a weak argument.
> Show me a Lisp program with more than casual usage of arithmetics and tell my why you consider it readable.
Given that a lot math code is expressed in low-level Fortran, I'll take Lisp every day.
From a statistics system in Lisp:
(defgeneric gaussian-probability-density (x params) (:documentation "general gaussian density method.") (:method ((x number) (params gaussian-probability-univariate-parameters)) (\ (exp (* -1.0 (/ (- x (mean params)) (standard-deviation params))) (sqrt (* 2.0 pi (variance params))))))
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You tried to prove your theory by finding positive evidence. But the evidence is very weak and far fetched.
> which support the standpoint that symbols-and-infix arithmetics is good for humans, based on how their mind works.
Given that we largely don't know how the mind 'works', that's a weak argument.
> Show me a Lisp program with more than casual usage of arithmetics and tell my why you consider it readable.
Given that a lot math code is expressed in low-level Fortran, I'll take Lisp every day.
From a statistics system in Lisp:
I find that perfectly readable.