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Re:An Intuition for Lisp Syntax by fao_ on Monday October 26, 2020 @10:33AM (#24896542)
> I could not help but thinking at the end, this is really awesome but s-expressions are kind of hard to read and reason about for my brain, it would be cool if we could generate them from more readable syntax, maybe something like javascript :D

Little known fact: The people who came up with lisp wanted to do this, too.

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/M_expressions

Re:An Intuition for Lisp Syntax by minerjoe on Monday October 26, 2020 @11:54AM (#24897514)
I think the story continues to where, in the beginning, they thought a change would be good, but after seeing the benefits that s-expressions gave, changed their minds.