I think he's kind of close, at least in that it was not meant to be written as S-expressions. AFAIK, the M-expressions were meant to be the main syntax. The ver

I think he's kind of close, at least in that it was not meant to be written as S-expressions. AFAIK, the M-expressions were meant to be the main syntax. The very early Lisp docs I've seen were all written in M-expressions, with S-expressions taking the lead something like a decade later. (This was all decades before my time, so it's possible this is sampling bias, but I don't think so.)