Let’s talk about text over symbols and readability. Return the maximum value of the array “numbers”. The languages are listed in descending order of text > sy

Let’s talk about text over symbols and readability. Return the maximum value of the array “numbers”. The languages are listed in descending order of text > symbol. Clojure: (apply max numbers) JavaScript: Math.max(...numbers); APL (I couldn't find how to apply this to an arbitrary array): ⌈/ 4 3 2 7 5 1 3 Here’s a guess: ⌈ numbers The most aymbol-focused is the least readable to me, and Clojure is the only one that returned good results from a Google search to figure out what was going on. Both “JavaScript ...” and “APL ⌈” gave me irrelevant results. Furthermore, how is this (if a true-cond false-cond) harder to read than this, aside from familiarity? if (a) { trueCond } else { falseCond } In the latter case, the if/else requires a special syntactical structure. And since it cannot be used as an expression, the common desire to conditionally assign a result spawned the ternary operator: a whole separate syntax that only applies when you want to assign a result to something. In lisps, you just use “if” wherever you need a binary conditional.