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Wisp: Whitespace to Lisp – An Alternative Lisp Syntax
- kazinator 10y agoResurrection of the same concept as the defunct LispIn: Wayback archivelink: http://wayback.archive.org/web/20080517144846id_/http://www.lispin.org/ http://wayback.archive.org/web/20080517144846id_/http://www.... People have been trying, on and off, to fix Lisp with different syntax since at least the early 1970's. I'm of course thinking of CGOL [1973]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CGOL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CGOL Lisp is still here; CGOL, for all intents and purposes, isn't.
- lispm 10y agoOriginally Lisp was suppossed to have a different syntax. See the McCarthy papers on early Lisp. The LISP2 project was a huge effort during the 60s to define a successor to LISP1, including a conventional syntax. http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/lisp2_family/ http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/lisp2_fami...