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(How to Write a (Lisp) Interpreter (In Python)) norvig.com

zahlman23 minutes ago

(how-to in-python (write (interpreter lisp)))

azhenley11 minutes ago

Writing a Lisp is one of my favorite projects. I try to do it every year or two, taking a different approach each time.

toshop32 minutes ago

I can't recommend highly enough to implement a simple lisp (or a forth).

Illuminating experience and it will also help you see (among many other things) the parentheses in a different light.

stdatomic12 minutes ago

First day of paradigms course in the 2000s and prof says "if your opinion of Scheme is too many parentheses, then you're an idiot."

Needless to say that was my opinion and every day I think, more and more, how right he was.

(later I did make some gui apps that included scripting and chose s-expr syntax because of how simple it is to implement it)

NooneAtAll35 minutes ago

main problem isn't brackets themselves - it's that they're too on the right

had brackets been displayed as curly braces in C - everything would look much more manageable

urcite_ty_kokos29 minutes ago

Appreciated the title xD

e12e25 minutes ago

(2010)?

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