Comment by noosphr
1 day ago
Kids need an antidote to the brain damage that is standard mathematical notation. I prefer lisps variadic prefix notation, but if you're just doing fixed arity functions without higher order functions than prefix and post fix are as good as each other, and you don't have the dreaded sea of parenthesis.
what aspect of school level “mathematical notation” is so bad as to be brain damage inducing?
probably the arbitrariness of it. PEMDAS is more or less burned into my brain at this point but its basically the qwerty of notations.
that’s not even notation though, that’s a rubric for the order of operations.
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