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- noun computing A
symbolic expression .
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It will be no surprise to those who know me that IRON has a distinctly LISPy feel to it; indeed, we have traditional S-expression lists, written in the traditional way as space-separated lists of items in parentheses, and dotted pair notation for improper lists.
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S-expression based languages eg, Lisps, and by a broader definition of s-expression, things like Prolog use a single regular syntax to represent the parse tree of code, rather than having parsing rules for each syntactic construct in the language.
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Over its fifty-year history, lisp has spawned many variations on the core theme of an S-expression language.
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S-expression based I / O, signal handling, process handling, and I / O multiplexing.
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