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Yep. Languages with a simplistic syntax (and a simplistic paradigm) make writing compilers for those languages easy, but they do not make creating programs in t

by wott 6y ago

Yep. Languages with a simplistic syntax (and a simplistic paradigm) make writing compilers for those languages easy, but they do not make creating programs in the languages easy. We can think of Lisp, or even more of Forth. It is also a common characteristic of "esoteric" languages: providing very little syntax, very few keywords, instructions and ready-built features, is an ingredient of their recipe for obfuscation.

SubjectToChange 6y ago
Why is it hard to make programs in lisp? Especially in something like Common Lisp?
monetus 6y ago
Here is a pretty neat tcl->Llvm compiler https://core.tcl-lang.org/tclquadcode/dir https://core.tcl-lang.org/tclquadcode/dir There is a talk on youtube about it I know