Lisp is more diffucult to read for most devs because most devs are used to C/Java -like synthax.If most devs were used to Lisp, it would be the other way around.It's a chicken and egg problem, at this point.
I think part of it is that English speakers say: “2 plus 2” not “plus 2 2”, so the infix notation matches our natural language and mental model.
Most languages use either subject-object-verb or subject-verb-object word orders, which together account for ~90% of world languages; verb-first word order languages only account for ~10% of world languages.
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If most devs were used to Lisp, it would be the other way around.
It's a chicken and egg problem, at this point.
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- compare apples to oranges
- use observational skills
(edit: formatting)