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> But humans dislike, and much prefer infix with its complicated operator precedences

Depends on what you're writing; Gerald Jay Sussman claims that edge cases in mathematical notation (and corner-cutting of sorts in what is written) makes physics quite hard to grasp in "The role of programming" [1]; hence the Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics book, which includes many Scheme programs which explicate everything.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arMH5GjBwUQ




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