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... i'll sum some fundamental problems of lisp. • Lisp relies on a regular nested syntax. However, the lisp syntax has several irregularities, that ...and awareness of automatic, uniform, formatting. • Lisp relies on a regular nested ... concept of “cons” cell. This fundamentally handicapped the advantages of power ... probably more than ALL commercial lisps combined. Such a illuminating social ...

... | Even with the reduced power of a type-2 grammar (the context-free | languages, which includes nearly all modern computer languages) | you can directly solve most math problems using string manipulation | rules. I know, because I implemented exactly that as homework once. | You start by implementing incrementing, decrementing, doubling, | and halving as string transformation operations,...

... output. Even with the reduced power of a type-2 grammar (the context-free languages, which includes nearly all modern computer languages) you can directly solve most math problems using string manipulation rules. I know, because I implemented exactly that as homework once. You start by implementing incrementing, decrementing, doubling, and halving as string transformation operations, ...

... can have multiple syntactic expressions (this was the original intent behind Lisp's [lack of] syntax, so far as I know). Further, similar...theory (such as lambda calculus, or other sub branches of logic.) Lisp, prolog, haskell, apl are such examples. For vast majority of ... Is there a formal definition that makes Java, C, perl, lisp, as computer languages? The answer is just no in our ...

...) Create a new lisp, but without these problems, and follow b)? .... Have you considered writing a lisp, or other language, yourself without ... find the nestedsyntaxproblematic. (not counting lisp irregularity since the few lispsyntaxirregularity ... APL'ssyntaxis similar idea. The problem with such asyntaxis that it ... languages will have a nestedsyntaxlike lisp (as a layer), might actually ...