Python folks would say that you could do something very much like the Ruby example in python, by replacing symbols with strings. A Rubyist would say how much less elegant that is. A C programmer would point out that you could do exactly the same thing in C by encoding prolog in a string … And the Python and Ruby programmers would point out how much easier their job is since they can rely on their language’s parser and lexer (instead of having to write a new one for the DSL). There’s a similar thing with Lisp vs Python and Ruby.
Ah, indeed. Lisp is short for “list processor” and ultimately that is all programming is when you abstract far enough.
It’s a beautiful thought, really.
The difficulty is in how best to organise the things that your lists are made up of, and how best to process them in a Von Neumann architecture…
I now want to drink red wine or whiskey and read SICP…
有这時間看 Reddit 不如把一仟多頁的的 CLtL2 看一遍(这位还在看 SICP 说明都还在门口转悠)。或者再学门语言，比如我最近看完了 The Swift Programming Language(看完 Common Lisp 标准以后发現 Swift 还挺容易)，順便覚得 Ada 还是不錯的，可以替代 C++。
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