Haha, thanks for stating this. Very helpful to see the common reactions from various folks (lispers being a category of folks whose reactions I am extra curious

Haha, thanks for stating this. Very helpful to see the common reactions from various folks (lispers being a category of folks whose reactions I am extra curious about). I'm quite familiar with sexp, (had not seen https://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-49/srfi-49.html https://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-49/srfi-49.html before though--thanks!). What TN and ETNs allow is the power of Lisp, with many more ways to build your programs. You give up a few tiny things (like the ability to have an arbitrary number of arbitrary nodes separated by arbitrary whitespace), and in return gain new powers like visual programming, fast/simple/easy-to-parallelize top down parsers, machine written programs with perfect code, et cetera.