There aren&#x27;t a lot of symbols to Lisp but there&#x27;s plenty of syntax<p>Using Racket:<p><pre><code>  (if bool then else) instead of (if bool then) or (if (bool then) (bool else))
  (if (&gt; x y)
    (x)
    (y)) ;fails for numbers because (x) is considered a function call (even though 3 is an invalid identifier and thus can be assumed to be always be a number).
 (define (fun x y) (...)) instead of (define fun (x y) (...)) or (define ((fun (x y)) (...)))
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That&#x27;s syntax.<p>Just because I&#x27;m not using {}&#x27;s here and infix there doesn&#x27;t make it any less syntax. That&#x27;s just the two most basic forms too; bring in loop? forget about it. This also ignores things like &#x27;(@,) or (x . y) but I&#x27;m not a lisper so I don&#x27;t know how often that actually comes up