You might be talking about two different things. The first possibility is the aggressively prefix-oriented nature of the syntax, the pervasiveness of the pattern F[a,b,...]. Or you might be talking about "everything else". We can distinguish the two cases with the following question: does Lisp syntax also strike you as too clunky? (I am sort of annoyed that the Mathematica community does not seem to have arrived at coherent formatting rules. A bit of indentation would, in my opinion, help enormously. This is why Mathematica bothers me but Lisp doesn't.) On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 6:14 PM, Dan Asimov <dasimov@earthlink.net> wrote:
Is it just my imagination, or is Mathematica syntax between 5 and 100 times as clunky as it needs to be?
Sometimes I feel it's like programming with Cobol^Cobol.
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