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Writing "x" in Lisp is like writing "x" in JavaScript. Writing "(x)" in Lisp is like writing "x()" in JavaScript, that is executing the function which was stor

• taeric 7y ago
  Strictly, this isn't right either. For example, (defun Foo (x) ... That is not calling a function x. Similarly, (let ((x 4))... Also not calling a function. It is just that, in lisp, you start a list of data with paren. In other languages, you activate a different part of the parser. It so happens that the default thing the evaluator does to a list is to apply it to a function given in the first spot.