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Re:History of Lisp Parentheses (2019) by slaymaker1907 on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @05:37PM (#34619023)
Scribble (Racket documentation language) uses a very interesting @-syntax that is very similar to m-expressions. '@func[x y]{some text}\ -> '(func x y "some text")'.
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Re:History of Lisp Parentheses (2019) by lispm on Thursday February 02, 2023 @03:41AM (#34623868)
Which is basically the syntax of Scribe, an early markup language from CMU's Brian Reid.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribe_(markup_language)

There is a user's manual from 1978: http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/cmu/scribe/...

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