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== Existing Standards ==
People looking for "s-expression" are not finding a specification because this is not a language, but a name for a category of printed syntax from the Lisp culture. This is like looking for a standard which formalizes "reverse polish notation" or "infix". Well, C has infix, Fortran has infix, Java has infix, ...
These standard languages have read syntax which is based on S-expressions:
Common Lisp: ANSI Standard available in the form of the [[http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Front/index.htm Common Lisp HyperSpec]]. The reader syntax is described in [[http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/02_.htm Syntax]].
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Scheme: Revised [6] Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme, [[http://www.r6rs.org/ R6RS]].
There are many common elements, and there are differences.
In addition to some prominent languages like these, there have been countless dialects. Emacs Lisp has its own particular S-expression syntax, and so does every Lisp dialect ever hacked up.
== syntax for S-Expressions ==
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