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Re:Thinking in Clojure for Java Programmers by thebigshane on Friday December 17, 2010 @04:49PM (#2017975)
I admire prefix notation but that's a poor example. Most people say "2 plus 3" and the prefix version is really wacky: "plus 2 3".
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Re:Thinking in Clojure for Java Programmers by xtho on Friday December 17, 2010 @05:59PM (#2018231)
They say "2 plus 3" when they read out loud the standard mathematical infix notation for that expression but that's not what they do.
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