https://github.com/shaunlebron/history-of-lisp-parens

a history of Lisp's most notorious artifact, parentheses
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a history of Lisp's most notorious artifact, parentheses

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/shaunlebron/history-of-lisp-parens
• Owner: shaunlebron
• Created: 2017-06-21T21:17:05.000Z (over 7 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-09-22T23:24:30.000Z (4 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-15T11:40:18.556Z (3 months ago)
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# History of Lisp Parentheses

A historical look at the many attempts to improve Lisp's most notorious

artifact—_parentheses_.

I'd like to find out how people tolerated parens back in the golden days of

Lisp. I have a feeling we might've forgotten some things that would be useful

today, or might influence some new ideas.

Roughly, we cover the history in four parts:

1. [Why Parens?](why-parens.md)

1. [Editors](editors.md)

1. [Alternative Syntaxes](alt-syntax.md)

1. [Visual Decorations](decorations.md)

## Archived References

See the following archive of historical papers and manuals referenced in the sections above:

https://archive.org/details/history-of-lisp-parens