But it would be hard to do that without creating a notation for parse trees; and once you do, your language has become a skin on Lisp, in much the same way that

But it would be hard to do that without creating a notation for parse trees; and once you do, your language has become a skin on Lisp, in much the same way that in OS X, the Mac OS became a skin on Unix. TIL Julia is a skin on Lisp. It can be interesting to study ancient philosophy, but more as a kind of accident report than to teach you anything useful. Couldn't agree more, ancient philosophy (and most of contemporary philosophy) is a complete waste of time.