The first step is to overcome the syntax. It's useful to think in terms of Python syntax at first. f(x) (f x) ["f", "x"] (print (< 10 20)) ["print",

The first step is to overcome the syntax. It's useful to think in terms of Python syntax at first. f(x) (f x) ["f", "x"] (print (< 10 20)) ["print", ["<", 10, 20]] Lisp code is just list data which gets evaluated by an interpreter function. Like this: code = ["print", ["<", 10, 20]] def eval(code): # magic eval(code) # True Filling out that eval function is a great way to learn. I only truly understood lisp when I implemented my own. These articles are very good and accessible: https://www.norvig.com/lispy.html https://www.norvig.com/lispy.html https://norvig.com/lispy2.html https://norvig.com/lispy2.html