Yeah I think that makes sense, and that's how I learned... The s-expressions let you concentrate on the meaning without getting bogged down in details. And the

Yeah I think that makes sense, and that's how I learned... The s-expressions let you concentrate on the meaning without getting bogged down in details. And then parsing has some nice algorithms, but it's full of details ... I actually find the parsing part harder in many respects. At least it's more code to write, and test.