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From: cstacy@spacy.boston.ma.us (Christopher C Stacy)
Subject: Re: What happened to prefix notation?
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dale@hush.lib.uchicago.edu (Dale Arntson) writes:
   Can anyone explain why prefix notation has been scrapped?

Everybody knows that LISP is bad, so we can't have anything that looks
like LISP.  The parenthesis in LISP are too hard to understand.
Any successful language had better have lots of syntax.

Sigh.
