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An Intuition for Lisp Syntax
Every lisp hacker I ever met, myself included, thought that all those brackets in Lisp were off-putting and weird. At first, of course. Soon after we all came to the same epiphany: lisp’s power lies in those brackets ! In this essay, we’ll go on a journey to that epiphany.
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- 551
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- 305
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Programming LanguagesSoftware Engineering2020
On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 26, 2020 | An Intuition for Lisp Syntax by simonpure | 551 | 197 |
| Aug 28, 2022 | An Intuition for Lisp Syntax (2020) by cercatrova | 175 | 108 |
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