I have a little off-topic question. Why are there so few programming languages with true Polish syntax? I mean, prefix notation, fixed arity, no parens (except, maybe, for lists, sequences or similar). And of course, higher order functions. The only example I can think of is REBOL, but it has other features I don't like so much, or at least are not essential to the idea. Now there are some open-source clones, such as Boron, and now Red, but what about very different languages with the same concept?
I like pure Polish notation because it seems as conceptually elegant as Lisp notation, but much closer to the way spoken language works. Why is it that this simple idea is so often conflated with ugly or superfluous features such as native support for infix notation, or a complex type system? _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list [email protected] http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
