[Bluej-discuss] bluej-discuss Digest, Vol 52, Issue 12

[Aryeh M. Friedman]

Lon Levy wrote:
> "> Many of us use Scheme as a first language
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> What is worse too much semantic overhead or the syntax from hell??!?!?!?"
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> Did you ever really learn Scheme?  The syntax is mostly prefix notation.  There are about five more elements of syntax that I teach my 

Pre/postfix belongs in compilers and very old hp calculators only!!! 
All humor aside anything but infix requires an amazing amount of
conceptual conversion between problem and code space.   That plus having
to count parens basically rules out any lisp variant in my mind.