Comment by silentbicycle

People have come up with many rationalizations, but really, anything that doesn't have a mostly C/Java-style syntax just pisses off the majority of programmers.

When you look at languages that actually, consistently use infix and mathematical notation (http://nsl.com/k/ray/rayq.k), they seem to give most programmers fits.

Infix also only really works for unary and binary operators, of course.