Comment Re:There were 10 types of ancient societies (Score 1) 170
``Polymorphism'' is not OOP's exclusive characteristic, you know. But I suspect the Polynesian might be behind the development of System F.
I also bet that you only read the summary.
http://worrydream.com/dbx/
the strange syntax
S-expression is more like the textual representation of Lisp's abstract syntax tree than syntax. In the past Lisp had something more like a conventional syntax (M-expression) which (if I remember correctly) compiled into s-expression, but somehow people still liked s-expression better.
Anything cut to length will be too short.