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>>What is really the meaningful difference between this and an s-expression language? >Turing completeness. S-expressions in and of themselves are obviously n
by rvense 5y ago
>>What is really the meaningful difference between this and an s-expression language?
>Turing completeness.
S-expressions in and of themselves are obviously not Turing complete. This language could easily have been encoded in S-expressions, just like Lisp can be encoded as JSON. (Like, trivially, as lists with quoted strings instead of atoms, or using whatever object-based syntax.)
- pydry 5y agoWell, the most famous example most definitely is. There's thousands of ways this could have been encoded. Why that one specifically?