It's not easy to get the point across just by reading about it. Id honestly say you should just learn some lisp and implement something cool. > I don't see why

It's not easy to get the point across just by reading about it. Id honestly say you should just learn some lisp and implement something cool. > I don't see why this would be any different than defining a function like I normally do. Because with functions you don't define any new syntax or implement a DSL; you don't have access to the compiler during read, compilation, and run time. This allows you to easily extend the language: do you miss list comprehensions from Python? Add it yourself with a macro. Want to generate boilerplate code? Macro. Prolog compiler? Yes. Basically anything in this book: https://github.com/norvig/paip-lisp https://github.com/norvig/paip-lisp > But why is this more productive than simply defining a "exponent()" function or something similar? It's not just about defining a new operator, you can basically implement a DSL with C-like syntax if you want to: https://github.com/y2q-actionman/with-c-syntax https://github.com/y2q-actionman/with-c-syntax