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Re:Why is Common Lisp not the most popular programming langu... by svachalek on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @06:57PM (#39377282)
I don't "run" x 2 ^ by hand and I don't think anyone does. Some people find different notations more intuitive and that's fine but whether it's prefix postfix or infix, it's still an abstraction.
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Re:Why is Common Lisp not the most popular programming langu... by gumby on Thursday February 15, 2024 @01:00AM (#39379605)
> I don't "run" x 2 ^ by hand and I don't think anyone does

Of course everyone evaluates expressions symbolically: in code review, when debugging, even when looking over an expression just after typing it to make sure it’s right.

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