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MC Carthy, when creating Lisp, decided on an abstract syntax that is fine and dandy for people doing program rewriting but never provided a human palatable concrete syntax.McCarthy defined both S-expressions for symbolic manipulation and M-expressions for publication.
Note also that the distinction between concrete and abstract syntax parallels the distinction made by Chomsky between surface and deep structures.I don't see that it does.
But some will claim that Chomsky is a fraud in linguistic.Anyone making such a claim is a fraud.
This has nothing to do with his political opinions :)For the most part, Chomsky quotes from public documents and draws obvious inferences. Quite in contrast to McCarthy, who is a standard-issue jingoist who indeed has nothing but uninformed opinion when it comes to politics.
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