What makes Lisp difficult to read? (paultm.nl)

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[-] KissYagni@programming.dev 2 points 6 days ago

I'm still convince that polish notation was the biggest mistakes of Lisp. At some point, the guy who create Lisp language decide to get rid of 2 centuries of mathematic convention just because of a technical limitation that last for maybe 2 decades.

Oh, and no one to talked about (1- x) ?

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