Yep the core is very small but also useless if you want to write real software. You need a lot of additional code to have a useful language. With the core you c

Yep the core is very small but also useless if you want to write real software. You need a lot of additional code to have a useful language. With the core you can’t even add two numbers. Unless you encode numbers as cons lists (Peano style). The core for Haskell is also super small (just 1 page). But it takes a lot of additional code to make Lisp and Haskell useful/practical.