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   screwlisp (screwtape@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 16:45:17 JST screwlisp

   Pratt
   so, I read this. https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/512927.512931
   but I've never done this before, so I have been having trouble getting a vibe.
   A point Pratt mentions is that the central problem is that you can't get people to accept a prefix language like this:
   print + * 2 3 * 4 5
   (assuming + and * act on two elements)
   but there are these crazy #lisp people, that if you add overspecified brackets:
   (print (+ (* 2 3) (* 4 5)))
   Say they will happily read and write, and can understand this expression perfectly.