From: William G. Dubuque
Subject: Re: Personal Preference: The Devil in Disguise
Date: 
Message-ID: <WGD.94Aug25011141@martigny.ai.mit.edu>
Regarding the use of juxtaposition for multiplication vs. functional
application etc. it is instructive to compare computer-algebra systems
which adapt these competing approaches. E.g. Mathematica uses
juxtaposition for multiplication, but Macsyma and Maple do not.  Many
view this as a serious design flaw in Mathematica's syntax, and you
may find further discussion of the issue in Richard Fateman's
(·······@peoplesparc.Berkeley.EDU) long paper on problems with
Mathematica (this appeared last year in the Jnl. Symbolic.
Computation, and is also available online somewhere at Berkeley)
From: Jay Martin
Subject: Re: Personal Preference: The Devil in Disguise
Date: 
Message-ID: <1994Aug25.073855.3202@cs.ucla.edu>
···@zurich.ai.mit.edu (William G. Dubuque) writes:

>Regarding the use of juxtaposition for multiplication vs. functional
>application etc. it is instructive to compare computer-algebra systems
>which adapt these competing approaches. E.g. Mathematica uses
>juxtaposition for multiplication, but Macsyma and Maple do not.  Many
>view this as a serious design flaw in Mathematica's syntax, and you
>may find further discussion of the issue in Richard Fateman's
>(·······@peoplesparc.Berkeley.EDU) long paper on problems with
>Mathematica (this appeared last year in the Jnl. Symbolic.
>Computation, and is also available online somewhere at Berkeley)

Found the paper in tex format by ftping at peoplesparc.Berkeley.edu.
Look under pub/papers for file called mathrev.tex.Z.  Jay