2026-09-30 09:03:04
What makes #Lisp difficult to read?
https://paultm.nl/paren-thesis
What makes #Lisp difficult to read?
https://paultm.nl/paren-thesis
"In most languages, metaprogramming lives in a separate layer with its own representation of code like templates, reflection APIs, token streams, quasi-quoted ASTs. Some of those layers are crude and some are genuinely sophisticated, but each is a wall between code and data. In Elisp there was never a wall to tunnel through. Elisp enables metaprogramming, but it's the same language, and the same data structures, all the way down." - Charlie Holland
#lisp #elisp #emacslisp
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