Ah, I see, right. One specificity of Lisp however is that the textual representation already looks like the abstract syntax tree that the Lisp variable which i

Ah, I see, right. One specificity of Lisp however is that the textual representation already looks like the abstract syntax tree that the Lisp variable which is passed to the Lisp function in the text file contains. But I can easily admit that this fact can also be seen as some sort of illusion since in the end it is just a sequence of bytes.