Re: How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel functional language to the level of FORTH ?

[Andrew Haley]

In comp.lang.forth Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> lisp syntax does not use operators, or rather, it primarily relies on
> one single match-fix operator the parenthesis. And as a match-fix
> operator, the word ?pre-fix? doesn't make much sense because that word
> is primarly for operators used in a linear (none nested) way.
> 
> for detail, see:
> 
> ?The Concepts and Confusions of Prefix, Infix, Postfix and Fully
> Nested Notations?
> http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/notations.html

Given that the article even manages to confuse Polish notation and
Reverse Polish notation, I strongly recommend that everyone avoid it.

Andrew.