> The ideal syntax for performing some operation O on entities X, Y and Z consists only of the symbols O, X, Y an Z That's simply begging the question. That v

> The ideal syntax for performing some operation O on entities X, Y and Z consists only of the symbols O, X, Y an Z That's simply begging the question. That viewpoint only makes sense if all code is most parsimoniously broken down into its parse tree, but I don't think that's been shown. When all you have is a hammer (even a slick, homoiconic hammer), everything looks like a nail. > We need the parentheses to delimit that as an expression among other symbols. There are other ways to delimit expressions as well (e.g. implicitly with precedence, with whitespace, with HTML tags, with curly braces, etc.); why is Lisp's way the one true way?