s-expressions considered harmful

http://www.dwheeler.com/readable/retort-lisp-can-be-readable.html

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special syntax as opposed to no syntax, ie as opposed to s-expressions like (lambda (x) (+ 1 x))

because it is not ever terribly useful to abstract past "lambda", it might as well have syntax. Macros over lambda tend to just be sugar to avoid typing "lambda" anyway.