This looks interesting: https://code.google.com/p/ambi/ - instead of supporting infix it supports both polish and reverse polish. Can you give some examples of what your ideal syntax would look like which illustrates the "spoken language" aspect you touched on? -Shaun
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 10:21 AM, Martin Baldan <martino...@gmail.com>wrote: > 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 > fonc@vpri.org > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc >
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