> The operands are arranged horizontally in lisp instead of vertically, but the supposed weirdness of the operator being on the left doesn't seem to bother peop

> The operands are arranged horizontally in lisp instead of vertically, but the supposed weirdness of the operator being on the left doesn't seem to bother people when it comes to arithmetic. I'm not sure I agree. I would argue that people read your example left to right, top to bottom, which would be "1 + 2". At least for people that read their native language this way. Maybe people who read from right to left would read "1 2 +" and be predisposed to Forth?