The Stepford Wives (1975 film) The Stepford Wives (1975 film) The Stepford Wives is a 1975 American science-fiction horror film based on the 1972 Ira Levin novel of the same name. It was directed by Bryan Forbes with a screenplay by William Goldman, and stars Katharine Ross, Paula Prentiss, and Peter Masterson. While the film was a moderate success at the time of release, it has grown in stature as a cult film over the years. Building upon the reputation of Levin's novel, the term "Stepford" or "Stepford Wife" has become a popular science fiction concept and several sequels were shot, as well as a
S-expression be formatted as pretty printed S-expressions using the function PPRINT (note: with two Ps, short for "pretty"-print). Lisp programs are valid s-expressions, but not all s-expressions are valid Lisp programs. codice_21 is a valid s-expression, but not a valid Lisp program, since Lisp uses prefix notation and a floating point number (here 1.0) is not valid as an operation (the first element of the expression). An S-expression preceded by a single quotation mark, as in codice_22, is syntactic sugar for a quoted S-expression, in this case codice_23. S-Expressions are often compared to XML, a key difference being that S-Expressions are