alt Hacker NewsThis, lisp is perfect for representing arbitrary data, nesting is just another sexpr, easy to produce, easy to parse and easy to debug / reason about
This, lisp is perfect for representing arbitrary data, nesting is just another sexpr, easy to produce, easy to parse and easy to debug / reason about
When I did my degree, the years prior to mine had some flexibility choosing the implementation language for compilers class.
Lisp and Prolog were forbidden due to how easy the whole exercise would be.