[kazinator]

Lisps are fairly "decorative". It just doesn't combine a pin-striped blazer over a plaid shirt with leopard patterned pants, like many languages.

Here are some traditional notations found in Common Lisp:

  "string"
  symbol
  :keyword-sym
  #:gensym
  package:sym
  `(static content ,inserted ,@spliced)
  (l i s t)
  (im pro per li . st)
  #(v e c t o r)
  6.18e+23
  13/17
  ;; comment
  #*100111101101
  #1=(1 2 3 #1#) ;; circular structure
  #S(point :x 35 :y 44)

Various dialects have various notations. There is syntax highlighting support in editors, too.

Lisp is not just (this (and that)).

[wvenable]

And you imagine this is a contraction to what I said?

[kazinator]

Well, not exactly. What you said doesn't quite have the form which supports that sort of activity.