[btilly]

I meant to say "no syntax" there. I've now changed it.

I wouldn't say that the VSO vs SVO distinction is Lisp vs infix languages. Because in an infix language I can and do write things of the form do_this(some_thing, various, parameters).

However it does come up with OO programming where we have some_thing.do_this(various, parameters). Versus the CLOS (do_this some_thing various parameters). People seem to prefer the standard OO syntax even though the CLOS approach is more general (since do_this will dispatch to the correct method based on its parameters, and can pay attention to more than one parameter to do so if needed).

[lispm]

CLOS is more:

    (do-this-process object1 object2 .. object-n)

Like:

    (collide ship1 ship2)

or

    (render document1 printer1)

[aerique]

And then people call Lisp unreadable :-(

Even though I started out with Algol-like languages I never liked all the different rules for braces, parens, comma's, square braces, assignment, variables, etc. etc. so Lisp was a natural fit for me.