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A different take on S-expressions
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Although a great part of S-expressions power lies in its simplicity, let's introduce a few extensions in a hope of making expressed code more readable, namely: strings, comments, and transposed blocks. These blocks represent an attempt to tackle with unreadable sequences of parenthesis usually placed at the end of expressions when writing S-expression code. The resulting code format is a bit more complicated than it is in usual Lisp languages, but we hope that the introduced complexity is justified by the data readability expressed this way.
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