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Please, what is the problem this solves? What are some example instances of things that the lisp approach makes difficult or impossible that this alternative ma
by dustingetz 2y ago
Please, what is the problem this solves? What are some example instances of things that the lisp approach makes difficult or impossible that this alternative makes straightforward?
- mst 2y agoI think it's not so much directly trying to solve a specific problem as trying to strip away even more hardcoded parts and then proving it's possible to start from that even smaller than lisp syntax level of syntax and still build back up to something structured. There's e.g. a giant pile of pure maths that demonstrates how to build up basic normal maths from a much tinier set of axioms and I find taking this in a similar spirit to make it make a lot more sense. (helps I was a pure maths grad once, mind, my metaphor may be utterly useless to anybody who isn't)