Lisp

Introduction

This is a quick tour on lisp. I decided to look at this because of the build a compiler youtube by lens_r which made me feel I am missing something. This has been rabbit hole which I have fallen done

Concepts

This is my view and maybe wrong but to me the first thing I noticed was the huge amount of parentheses which are involved. It made the language look really ugly and made me feel don't do this. I think I have touched this in the past because of a gun to my head. That said, like people, you probably need to understand before having a view, and even then, not for you is a better view and it is negative. So here is the half day I spent

Comments

;;;; Describe Program 4 semi colons
;;; Comments

;; Indented Comments

#|| Multiline
My Comments
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Format to terminal

(format t "Hello World ~%")

Print

(print "Hello World")