Yes, wanting to "solve" Lisp syntax has been a common initial response to Lisp for at least several decades. In 1993, Gabriel and Steele wrote: > we expect fu

Yes, wanting to "solve" Lisp syntax has been a common initial response to Lisp for at least several decades. In 1993, Gabriel and Steele wrote: > we expect future generations of Lisp programmers to continue to reinvent Algol-style syntax for Lisp, over and over and over again, and we are equally confident that they will continue, after an initial period of infatuation, to reject it. (Perhaps this process should be regarded as a rite of passage for Lisp hackers.)