Originally 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

Originally 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...