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   VnPower (vnpower@misskey.pm)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 21:16:36 JST VnPower

   Can people really do math in #Lisp?

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     hajovonta (hajovonta@mastodon.online)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 21:16:32 JST hajovonta

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     • Max

     @max_muehsal
     I agree. The popular math notation has a serious flaw of having operator precedence. After a while the S-expression notation becomes much more clear.

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     Max (max_muehsal@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 21:16:34 JST Max

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     @VnPower ( * 2 3 4 5 …. ) is really short! And it is so easy to parse. Do it for some time, and you start to hate the orher notation.

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     Max (max_muehsal@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 21:16:35 JST Max

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     @VnPower what is math 2 u?

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     VnPower (vnpower@misskey.pm)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 21:16:35 JST VnPower

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     • Max

     @max_muehsal I mean, can you look at a piece of Lisp code that evaluates a math formula and know what that formula really looks like in its raw form?

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     Paolo Amoroso (amoroso@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 21:16:46 JST Paolo Amoroso

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     @VnPower Lisp has been used since the early 1960s for pioneering work on computer algebra systems, see for example Macsyma:

     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macsyma

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     VnPower (vnpower@misskey.pm)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 21:41:43 JST VnPower

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     • Max

     Thanks for all of your responses! I'm new to Lisp and haven't done too much research. TBH after all of this I still can't imagine that one day I'd be able to write Lisp notation fluently. Perhaps I'll need some time working with it...
     
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     MortSinyx (cnx@awkward.place)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 21:41:43 JST MortSinyx

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     @VnPower, I highly recommend going thru the first couple chapters of SICP for some basic arithmetic and calculus in Scheme.