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ncarroll on July 23, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Little Lisp interpreter

Who needs a toy lisp? Can't we just lisp for real?

Edit: Ok, ok. Now that the title of submission has been changed from "Toy Lisp Interpreter" to "Little Lisp Interpreter" my quip, having lost context doesn't make me smile anymore either.

pmelendez on July 23, 2013 [–]

As a learning experience is excellent. Lisp family languages are great for this since they are turing complete and with a pretty simple syntax.

brudgers on July 23, 2013 | [–]

Under the aesthetics of logic, I find Lisp's syntax pretty as well.

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