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by andybak 3265 days ago
Is there a LISP with significant white space in place of parentheses? Our two groups could be united by the disgust of the rest of the programming community.
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The Arc language wiki has this list of languages that make use of significant whitespace.

https://sites.google.com/site/arclanguagewiki/more/list-of-l...

See this: http://readable.sourceforge.net/

Works with both Scheme and Common Lisp, two most popular Lisps out there. Nobody uses it because paredit/parinfer is just too convenient, but the option is there.

Check out Dylan and Sweet Expressions.