Yeah, I didn't get it either until I implemented my own lisp. > the difficult thing I’ve found over the years is that Lisp is sort of unexplainable I've found

Yeah, I didn't get it either until I implemented my own lisp. > the difficult thing I’ve found over the years is that Lisp is sort of unexplainable I've found that getting rid of the parentheses helps. f(x) (f x) ["f", "x"] (print (< 10 20)) ["print", ["<", 10, 20]] Lisp code is just normal Python lists which get 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 lisp. 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