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Re:The Common Lisp Cookbook by TeMPOraL on Thursday June 29, 2017 @10:17AM (#14663479)
Write a reader macro that treats all [ ], { } and < > as if they were ( ), and the only thing they'll notice is that there's less parens/brackets than there should be in regular Java code...
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Re:The Common Lisp Cookbook by arethuza on Thursday June 29, 2017 @10:46AM (#14663711)
There have been efforts to do something similar to create more "readable" S-expressions. I did work in Common Lisp for a number of years and didn't have any issues with the syntax but I rather like this idea:

http://readable.sourceforge.net/

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