RE: Are anonymous type classes the right model at all? (replying to Re: Are fundeps the right model at all?)

Julian Assange wrote (Dec 28, 2000):

This is why all non S-exp like lanaguage are doomed to progressive syntactic cancer as the useful parts of operator name space and syntax space become progressively polluted and mutated by one fad after another.

Could you expand on this? I would think that all languages have identifies that, through common usage become standardized, and that this meaning becomes a de-facto part of the language. Do you feel that this has not happened in Lisp/Scheme? --PeterD