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IMHO [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-expression][Symbolic Expressions]] are... infinitely better.

Example: '(iff (not (and (P 1) (P 2))) (or (not (P 1)) (not (P 2))) )

It actually would not be too hard to add a separate parser for S-expressions; this would allow the existing "backend" tooling (converting to postfix, generating trees, filling tables, etc.) to be used unchanged. I actually think this would be a really powerful feature to add; thanks for the idea!

  I forgot to mention SMT-LIB[1] and pySMT[2].  I don't want to say their are optimal, I just think You might find it interesting.  

  I think it would be even better with Curryed[0] Functions.  As an example ``'(f a1 a2)'' is just a Syntactic Sugar for ``'((f a1) a2)''.  

  Don't forget something like `help' in Python :) .

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currying [1]: http://www.smtlib.org/ [2]: https://github.com/pysmt/pysmt

Greenspun's Tenth Rule: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule

A Lisp might be a better language choice for that use case than Python. Nothing against Lisps or Python.

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