Re: Lisp and Scheme with fewer parentheses / Mathematica??

The discussion is interesting, don't blame neither Xah L. nor Richard F. for their extreme
opinions. Mathematica is *interesting* for the Lisp community, it is perhaps - for now - the
most advanced Lisp-like language. I can understand the opinion that a rewrite system is
*perceived* from the programmer's point of vue as a macro expansion, even if it is
not actually...
The best thing which could happen is that the core language of Mathematica, without
math librairies, is placed in the public domain. This idea was in the air some years
ago, don't remember exactly, but was abandonned by Wolfram Research. They missed
a point, this language could have been a killer, when augmented with general capabilities
such as network or GUI programming. Steven, come on, give us your baby ! You will make
money with the maths...

Or at least show us a meta circular Mathematica interpreter :-)

-JG
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