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We're hard-wired for Lisp. Broca's area 44,45 and 47 are responsible for processing hierarchical structures.[1] That's why it's so easy to reason about Lisp cod
by dimovich 12y ago
We're hard-wired for Lisp. Broca's area 44,45 and 47 are responsible for processing hierarchical structures.[1] That's why it's so easy to reason about Lisp code.
[1] http://www.letras.ufrj.br/poslinguistica/recursion/papers/17-friederici.pdf http://www.letras.ufrj.br/poslinguistica/recursion/papers/17...
- thinkpad20 12y agoI don't see what that specifically has to do with Lisp. Virtually every programming language in use has a recursive hierarchical structure.
- dimovich 12y agoThe code itself is hierarchical in nature.
- wonderzombie 12y agoThe difference is that you end up with (e.g.) https://cs50.harvard.edu/resources/cppreference.com/operator_precedence.html https://cs50.harvard.edu/resources/cppreference.com/operator... versus the AST being integral to the language itself.