[pohl]

I wasn't picking on his language prowess at all. Quite the opposite: I delighted in reading his post. The contrast that I find amusing is that, so often, those who decry the syntactic complexity of non-lisp programming languages never seem to have any problem at all with the syntactic complexity of English. If complex English syntax doesn't get in the way of expression, why insist that it is such a cognitive burden to have to have to worry about something other than s-expressions?