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Re:Why I like Common Lisp by Chattered on Sunday September 07, 2014 @01:40PM (#8281803)
In Haskell, I have the luxury of infix arithmetic, but I'll still happily write

    sum [a,b,c,d,e]
when I have a lot of summands.

It's just neater, especially when you format as

    sum [summand1
        ,summand2
        ,summand3]
This is more natural in Lisp. Because of this, I always go to Lisp for things like my weekly shopping budget. For bonus points, I can put my cursor at the end of a close bracket and get Emacs to evaluate the enclosed subexpression, which I do lots to figure out the value of individual terms.
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Re:Why I like Common Lisp by grayclhn on Monday September 08, 2014 @01:11AM (#8283512)
We do this in math too: ∑_{i=1,...,n} x_i is a lot more readable than x_1 + x_2 + x_3 + ... + x_n. (Underscore means "subscript" here.)
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