merits of Lisp vs Python

Paul Rubin http
Fri Dec 15 23:16:14 EST 2006


Kirk  Sluder <kirk at nospam.jobsluder.net> writes:
> Personally, I've always preferred use the imperative to describe 
> basic math rather than the passive. This would seem to map better to 
> RPN than infix. 

For writing down complicated, nested expressions too?  That's very
unusual.  E.g.

  n! = (n/e)**n * sqrt(2*pi*n) * (1 + (1/12n)) * ...

vs. the same thing in Lisp notation, and that's not even so complicated.



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