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Re:Fnl: zero-overhead Lisp syntax for Lua by bakpakin on Thursday February 15, 2018 @10:17PM (#16389592)
I like lisp and prefix notation in general, but I definitely still prefer reading large mathematical expressions in infix. Its really just a matter of preference.
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Re:Fnl: zero-overhead Lisp syntax for Lua by lispm on Friday February 16, 2018 @02:24AM (#16390582)
Most maths applications written in Lisp use infix/mixfix syntax for the languages they implement, too: Macsyma, Derive, Reduce, Axiom, ...

Implementation of those slightly diverges. Macsyma internally is largely written in Lisp syntax, where for example Reduce is written in RLisp (which is a Lisp written on top of Portable Standard Lisp), which does not use s-expression syntax.

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