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I wish we had stats about sexps (we shall call it the kinthey scale). As a kid what you said was the first thing my brain caught on. It compresses the number of
by agumonkey 4y ago
I wish we had stats about sexps (we shall call it the kinthey scale). As a kid what you said was the first thing my brain caught on. It compresses the number of things I had to remember it's ~always (idea arguments...). We can now discuss interesting problems.
- throwaway17_17 4y agoI had the same feeling when I first started using a lisp (which was Scheme to work through SICP and the Ableman&Sussman MIT course). I was utterly entranced by the simplicity and uniformity. It was absolutely a factor in the way syntax works in my personal language (which I use for almost everything in my day to day). I really do agree that learning a lisp can truly expand the way in which a dev views and thinks about code.
- agumonkey 4y agoBrown university PLT labs also vouched for this approache. Their textbook starts with a descriptions of sexps as syntax saying that's the only parsing theory covered here.