Ira Levin Ira Levin Ira Marvin Levin (August 27, 1929 – November 12, 2007) was an American novelist, playwright, and songwriter. His most noted works include the novels "A Kiss Before Dying" (1953), "Rosemary's Baby" (1967), "The Stepford Wives" (1972), and "The Boys from Brazil" (1976), as well as the play "Deathtrap" (1978). Many of his novels and plays have been adapted to film. Ira Levin was born on August 27, 1929, in the New York City, New York borough of Manhattan. He grew up in both Manhattan and the Bronx. His father, Charles, was a toy importer. Levin was educated at
S-expression grammar for a tiny subset of English written as an s-expression (Gazdar/Melish, Natural Language Processing in Lisp): Program code can be written in S-expressions, usually using prefix notation. Example in Common Lisp: S-expressions can be read in Lisp using the function READ. READ reads the textual representation of an s-expression and returns Lisp data. The function PRINT can be used to output an s-expression. The output then can be read with the function READ, when all printed data objects have a readable representation. Lisp has readable representations for numbers, strings, symbols, lists and many other data types. Program code can