Re: Mathematica and Lisp
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- Subject: [mg129578] Re: Mathematica and Lisp
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2013 01:38:35 -0500 (EST)
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On Jan 24, 2013, at 1:18 AM, Richard Fateman <fateman at cs.berkeley.edu> wrote: > On 1/22/2013 8:18 PM, David Bailey wrote: > .... > (regarding Lisp) > >> Having 3 types of brackets, definitely helps to discern the structure, >> even with indentation. >> > ... Note that f(a,g(b),c) has > as many parens as the Lisp (f a (g b) c) and that using square > brackets as f[a,g[b],c] is not much different. In many situations, in Mathematica one may use f[a, g@b, c] which is much easier to read that the FullForm equivalent (with the nested brackets). --- Murray Eisenberg murray at math.umass.edu Mathematics & Statistics Dept. Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H) University of Massachusetts 413 545-2838 (W) 710 North Pleasant Street fax 413 545-1801 Amherst, MA 01003-9305
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- Re: Mathematica and Lisp
- From: Richard Fateman <fateman@cs.berkeley.edu>
- Re: Mathematica and Lisp