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Jason Lewis Email jasonlewi...@gmail.com Twitter @canweriotnow <http://twitter.com/canweriotnow> Blog http://decomplecting.org About http://about.me/jason.lewis On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 6:44 PM, Kris Jenkins <krisajenk...@gmail.com>wrote: > As an interesting point of trivia, the idea of abandoning S-expressions > for some other notation actually pre-dates the first implementation of > Lisp. S-expressions were originally intended as a temporary measure, before > a more familiar representation - deemed M-expressions - could be > formalized. But in the words of John McCarthy: > > *"The project of defining M-expressions precisely and compiling them or > at least translating them into S-expressions was neither finalized nor > explicitly abandoned. It just receded into the indefinite future, and a new > generation of programmers appeared who preferred internal notation to any > FORTRAN-like or ALGOL-like notation that could be devised." The History > Of > Lisp<http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/history/lisp/node3.html#SECTION00030000000000000000> > * > > In short, the idea of abandoning S-expressions has fair claim to be one of > the oldest ideas in Lisp. My personal theory about that is that by the time > someone knows enough Lisp to do a decent job of the translation, they no > longer see any problem... > > Kris > > On Monday, 25 March 2013 10:52:23 UTC, poetix wrote: >> >> I really like the look of this: >> >> http://readable.sourceforge.**net/ <http://readable.sourceforge.net/> >> >> which defines a completely reversible transformation between e.g. >> >> >> define fibfast(n) >> if {n < 2} >> n >> fibup(n 2 1 0) >> >> and >> >> (define (fibfast n) >> (if (< n 2) >> n >> (fibup n 2 1 0))) >> >> >> and wonder how difficult it would be to support it (or something like it) >> in/for Clojure. A coffeescript-like approach might be a good first step. >> >> Any thoughts? >> >> Dominic >> > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
