Fair enough. I was aiming for a non-technical use of the term "syntax" more or less tracking the cognitive burden of remembering and parsing out the relationsh

Fair enough. I was aiming for a non-technical use of the term "syntax" more or less tracking the cognitive burden of remembering and parsing out the relationship between symbols for the programmer. Like, putting s-expressions in the front seat feels like a much lower cognitive load to me than, for example, all the stuff you have to think about writing, or, god help you, reading, pointfree haskell or line noise perl