M-expressions==LISP in "normal syntax"-kills LISP?

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18 years ago

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-expression

if i understand it right M-expressions would make it possible to have a LISP without parenthesis?

well what a lot of people love about LISP is macros and that code is data and data is code.

if someone rewrote LISP to have "normal" syntax and notation could you write

  defun sq(x)
      x*x

or somehing along those lines?

would that then make it very hard to do macros and do write programs that write programs?

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