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Re:D-Expressions: Lisp power, Dylan style [pdf] by kazinator on Monday May 20, 2024 @12:58PM (#40417497)
Before that, MacCarthy's own Lisp 2 added Algol syntax (1965-ish?), and then Vaughan Pratt (of "Pratt parser" fame) came up with CGOL in 1973.
Re:D-Expressions: Lisp power, Dylan style [pdf] by pfdietz on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @06:02AM (#40426358)
There's a long tradition of people asserting Lisp's problem was the lack of infix syntax, then discovering this was not in a fact a problem of Lisp.