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Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> writes:

>> That obviously doesn't require any cognitive load to lisp heads of
>> course.
>
> You had to parse the precedence and associativity of the original.  You
> don't have to do that with the Lisp form.

Yes, but we've all been able to do the former since we were 9 years old.
This is not a point that should be elided over.

For example, that's the reason we're currently conversing in English,
not Lojban.

Lisp, like Lojban, may be more suitable of certain types of parsing -
particularly by a machine - but that's not always the point, is it?