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> Humans are much more trained for prefix and infix notations

Non-programmers are not trained for prefix notation. Only Lisp programmers use prefix notation for mathematics, so I don't believe your assertion has much evidence to show for it.

> The Lisp notation has a different reason why it has been invented

Yes, and that reason was not readability. That's what I am trying to show.

> code is written as data

Which is great fun, but most programmers don't need or want that.




; prefix notation for mathematics

Mathematicians use that: cos (sin x)

; Yes, and that reason was not readability. That's what I am trying to show.

Not convincing so far. It turned out that the notation was the most practical (writing, reading, manipulating) for its purpose, otherwise the original syntax would have been used.

> Which is great fun, but most programmers don't need or want that.

Let's bring the fun back into programming.




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