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It's funny in the end. Parts of languages syntax reinforce other parts. In lisps you cannot write a-b as an arithmetic expression. Sequences of characters are symbols, and that's it. But also, lispers don't really care about infix notation[1] they have abstract polyadic operations: - + / * all take a list of zero or more arguments. (- x y z ...)

[1] And IMO people shouldn't, basic arithmetic isn't that frequent or complex enough to need such a dedicated treatment. But that's another lisp thing, you care more about having DSL opportunities for anything rather than a fixed set.



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