merits of Lisp vs Python
Paul Rubin
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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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