Mostly this article is about people being exposed to M-expressions in elementary math. As someone whos first programming post BASIC was on a Symbolics machine,

Mostly this article is about people being exposed to M-expressions in elementary math. As someone whos first programming post BASIC was on a Symbolics machine, coding _conventions_ worked just fine with s-expressions The Polish notation is probably what most people are reacting to unless you used the reverse version with an HP calculator. Whitespace isn't significant in C like the author suggests, it is coding convention. COBOL is a counterexample for whitespace significance not helping with readability. But for lisp the parentheses was a non-issue with just a few emacs macros. But that is the same with most modern languages outside of novelties like bf