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by BrianHammond 5925 days ago
"The weird thing about C is that its not even prefixed like Clojure (+ 2 2), instead all operators are scattered between the arguments!"

Please tell me he is kidding. Maybe I don't get out of my cave often enough but it seems uncommon that someone could grok FP bypassing C altogether.
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anonjon 5925 days ago
He's not kidding, C precedence rules are weird. Even D. Ritchie thinks so. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_operations#Programming...

Oh, and it isn't strange to grok FP bypassing C altogether.

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Luc 5925 days ago
Of course he's kidding! I refuse to believe that wasn't some tongue-in-cheek statement. For fluid dynamics, all we are talking about is addition and multiplication, and the precedence rules for these operations are what you would expect them to be.
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