S-expression
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- Characteristics
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- Use in Lisp
- Relation to XML
- Standardization
- See also
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In computer programming, an S-expression (or symbolic expression, abbreviated as sexpr or sexp) is an expression in a like-named notation for nested list (tree-structured) data. S-expressions were invented for, and popularized by, the programming language Lisp, which uses them for source code as well as data.