@nickbauman : re google real time api from long time ago -- has anyone built an real time svg editor on top of that?
Expressiveness is often a proxy for terseness. You get this with weird sigils in perl, for example.
The terseness often leads to side-effecty / magic behavior.
Magic behavior, by definition, isn’t readable.
Not that I know of
I love this explanation of the balance of syntax and semantics of Lisp: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13008649