Subject: Re: [Edu-sig] Now I went and did it

[Jason Cunliffe]

Daniel Yoo <dyoo@hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu> wrote

> I'm a Python user, but I'll try to defend Scheme in this respect, because
> I really believe in Scheme's beauty.  *grin*
> 
> I think part of what feels weird is the training we have, in both our
> languages and in math classes, in distinguishing between regular
> functions, (sin(x), exp(e), ...) and infix operators (+, *, ...).  Many
> languages make this distinction --- Scheme is one of the languages that
> doesn't.

Aha! this is a good point. Thank you.

>     "multiply 2, 3, 4, and 5" 
> as 
>     (* 2 3 4 5)
> 
> which is pretty nice, I think.

yes beautiful!

- Jason