Re: Is perl still the No.1 language for sysadmin?

[Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>]

Tom Dial wrote:

>>> Look at the use of parentheses in Lisp [...]
>>
>> I have thought about that - is Lisp possible without them?
>> But how do you then know priority? I'm sure someone tried
>> to get rid of them, but how?
>
> Its quite a few years since I had anything to do with Lisp,
> and even more since I wrote my Symbolic Logic final using
> parenthesis-free Polish notation (i.e., Reversed RPN).

Yes, you mean instead of

  (* 1 2 (+ 1 2 3) 3)

How would that look?

1 2
  1 2 3 +
  3 *

?

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