[william-shulman]

Hard to believe we had the right answer in 1960 yet are still afraid of the parens as an industry.

[ericmoritz]

(we (are (very (afraid)))

[irahul]

More like (afraid (very (are (we))))

or clojurish: (-> we are very afraid)

[lani]

Master Yoda called, he wants his cool back

[MetallicCloud]

)

[guelo]

:)

[jhuni]

(declare (very-afraid? we))

[danking00]

To be clear, the parent post is referring to the invention of LISP.

As a side note, for those who don't know, JavaScript shares a number of features with LISP/Scheme. JSON has the trappings of the very LISPy idea of "Data = Code". It doesn't quite live up to it though. Now, if we only had a parenthesized syntax for JavaScript...

[ricardobeat]

You can write "lispy" code with CoffeeScript, if you're feeling looney:

    (afraid (very (are (we))))

is valid syntax.