It's not just Lisp, though. The prefix syntax was the original one when the concept of records/structs were first introduced in ALGOL-like languages - i.e. you'

It's not just Lisp, though. The prefix syntax was the original one when the concept of records/structs were first introduced in ALGOL-like languages - i.e. you'd have something like `name(manager(employee))` or `name OF manager OF employee`. Dot-syntax was introduced shortly after and very quickly won over.