Ask HN: Taxonomy of Lisp [a-z]-expression forms?

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4 years ago

Does a central resource about the various underlying lisp expression forms exist? Aaside from typing each alphabet letter appended to "-expression' in wikipedia/search engine. aka s-expression; m-expression, q-expression, t-expression

Wikipedia alphabet approach would miss exotic expressions such as music-n [1] / nyquest [2] ; ANIMAL [3] ; iterative/generative/decorative forms such as haskel / arc

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUSIC-N

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyquist_(programming_language)

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANIMAL_(image_processing)

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