sexpressions, sexpr, sex!

[Frank DiCostanzo]

On Tue, 20 Jun 1995, Rainer Blome wrote:

> stating that i don't know where the term sexpression comes from, or if
> there is an official definition, i propose you use the term `syntactic
> expression' when you refer to string representations and `expression in
> memory' (or just `expression' for short) for the other ones.
> 
> rainer

i think i'm out of this thread except to say that i'd always heard that
s-expression was short for 'symbolic expression' (i.e.  a sequence of
symbols) which doesn't have a great deal to do with representation at all. 

frank