> I find the latter easier to read and lends itself to a fluent, lightweight style. Maybe I'm bikeshedding, but I think this is a nontrivial part of why people

> I find the latter easier to read and lends itself to a fluent, lightweight style. Maybe I'm bikeshedding, but I think this is a nontrivial part of why people like OOP languages. Being able to read right to left, without nested parens, makes code comprehension easier. I think the mathematical notation for function application has held programming languages back. I realize that there's a huge benefit to uniformity of syntax across languages, and that syntax is ultimately much less important than semantics, but I wish we could settle on something better than f(x). I really appreciate languages that are willing to do something different (e.g. haskell and lisp).