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Infix is mostly used, in programming, within mathematical and logical expressions. But the majority of my code spends its time in some kind of chain of function calls, which has the verb first. Maybe if I did more with OO-languages I'd see it differently?

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Interesting. OO syntax often is object.function(arguments), which is subject-verb-object order. I never thought of it that way before. You can throw some adverbs in among the arguments, too.

That's correspondent with how Java and especially Obj-C and super especially AppleScript programmers try to write code that reads like COBOL, er, English.

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