There is quite a lot of programming languages that have whitespace
separated lists. Most of them have "Algol like" syntax.
POP-2 or POP-11, from what I recall:
[a b c]
is a list literal, while
[% "a", "b", "c" %]
is a list expression.
PostScript:
[2 2 add dup 8 mul dup 2 div]
is a long-winded way of writing
[4 32 16.0]
In Lisp, whether an S-expression is meant to be taken literally or now
comes down to a single quote mark:
'(+ 2 2)
is the literal list “(+ 2 2)”, while
(+ 2 2)
is 4.
Which of these would you consider to have “Algol like” syntax? Only the
first one.
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