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All of this can be neatly summarized as "a noun is either an unsigned integer or a pair of two nouns". The authors apparently love to give things funny names a
by theseoafs 11y ago
All of this can be neatly summarized as "a noun is either an unsigned integer or a pair of two nouns". The authors apparently love to give things funny names and weird syntax, but there's nothing here that Lisp didn't do 50 years ago. Let's see what happens in chapter 1, though.
- urbit 11y agoYes! Although there are some things Lisp did 50 years ago, that aren't here. But this is less an improvement on Lisp, than a tribute to Lisp. Chapter 1 should remind you less of Lisp. Although I do expect to hear "that's just caddadr"...