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From: alan@allegra.UUCP (Alan S. Driscoll)
Newsgroups: net.lang.prolog
Subject: Re: Syntax again
Message-ID: <2544@allegra.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 20-Jun-84 13:35:50 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 20 13:35:50 1984
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> If Lisp syntax is so good *for people*, why is it that
> the great majority of mathematic and logic texts (even
> the Lisp 1.5 book) use operator and function(args) syntax?
> Might it be that the S-expression syntax wasn't meant for
> *human* consumption even by the inventor of Lisp?

It certainly wasn't!  Have the Lisp hackers out there
forgotten about M-expressions and evalquote?

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	Alan S. Driscoll
	AT&T Bell Laboratories