You've got your squint test backwards. What you should do is leave the letters stand and replace all parentheses and punctuation characters by blanks. What r

You've got your squint test backwards. What you should do is leave the letters stand and replace all parentheses and punctuation characters by blanks. What remains is pretty much the semantics-carrying part of the code. This is what I do when I show people Lispy (pseudo)code in presentations and it works fine. The people who like Algol-style syntax imagine the curly brackets are there and the Lispers imagine they see parentheses.